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With confidence in our armed
forces — with the unbounding de
: termination of our people—we will
gain the inevitable triumph — so
help us God.
—Roosevelt’s War Message
TUESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1943_
Our Chief Aim
To aid in every way the prosecu
tion of the war to complete Vic
tory. _
THOUGHT FOR TODAY
? Disbelief makes bitter, defiant spoiled
children who stamp their feet and de
mand personal satisfaction from the uni
verse. Faith makes poised, quiet, deter
mined creators of a new world.
Rev. Bernard C. Clausen D. D.
“Salute Edition”
Our hat is off to the Forest City Courier
which has just produced a “Salute Edition”
containing 112 pages, an achievement of note
in ordinary times but outstanding at this pe
riod considering business, labor and news
print conditions.
Any one interested in North Carolina’s rec
ord in affairs should obtain and carefully pre
serve a copy for reference. Rutherford coun
ty’s splendid history from Revolutionary days
down to the present is ably presented.
The publisher and staff of the Courier and
Rutherford county’s population may well take
pride in this issue. They have done a big
}ob well.
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Encouraging Idleness
One of the gravest errors weaklings fall into
is a belief that the world owes them a living.
Nobody is “owed” a living. The right to live
must be earned.
This said, it may be added that any scheme
of government to offer security from the cradle
to the grave is an extension of the fallacy
that the world owes any one a living. It is
difficult to imagine any plan which would en
courage idleness and slothfulness more suc
cessfully. If the government is going to take
care of everybody anyway, what incentive can
there be for self-support?
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The Next Move
In Africa and Sicily the Allies have engaged
but small contingents of German forces as
compared with the total of Germany’s armed
might. They have still to encounter many di
visions such as were hurled against the Rus
sians. This is why Josef Stalin, conceding
both in Africa and in Sicily the Allies have
had notable success, continues to say that
neither battle has constituted an actual second
front and insists that major attacks on con
tinental Europe, which would divert fifty or
sixty Nazi divisions from the Eastern front,
be launched.
There is fair reason to assume that Messrs.
Roosevelt and Churchill will study Russia’s
claim as one of the chief items on their agenda
at Quebec. But this aid is not merely a ques
tion of where to land expeditionary forces.
It is deeper than that. The current Russian
offensive which is making great progress calls
for a flexible program of attack and consider
ation of weather conditions with a close eye
on the stealthy approach of winter. The Allies
must be ready to strike their blows where
they will be of greatest advantage to the
Russians in the limited time good weather
may be depended upon, for while Allied air
operations may be continued after winter s
arrival land attack will be materially slowed
once cold weather sets in.
Whatever the political situation may be, and
many contend that Stalin is excluded from
the Quebec parleys for political reasons, it is
vital to United Nations success in Europe that
the next Allied move shall ease enemy pres
sure on the Eastern front wherever it is
heaviest. If Allied blows can be delivered
where they are most needed and with due
regard for changing conditions on the Russian
battleline, there is some reason to think the
war in Europe may be ended this year.
At the same time, and despite Elmer Davis’
declaration that air power cannot win the
war, it is reasonable to believe that if the
Allies have sufficient planes of the needed
types to maintain a round-the-clock air blitz
over Germany and German-held countries,
employing a thousand or more planes daily
in the undertaking, the need for land asshult
will be negligible. This phase of the Battle
of Europe, we may be sure, will have the
attention of Roosevelt and Churchill and their
staffs.
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“Consent Of The Governed”
Roscoe Drummond, Washington observer for
the Christian Science Monitor, philosophically
decides the “very opposite of what the human
mind suggests is often the truth.” On this
basis it is his conclusion that the forthcoming
national election in the midst of war, which
is widely viewed as a calamity, can be an
asset. “It does not have to be a liability
to the progress of the war; it can be a great
boon to the progress of the peace.” The is
sues of the peace, he feels, “will have to be
resolved while the fires of war which are
creating those issues are still burning.” Thus,
“the 1944 election, seemingly ill-timed from
the standpoint of the war, is signally well
timed from the standpoint of the peace.”
In concert with other observers, Mr. Drum
mond believes the determining factors in the
election are the people’s attitude toward in
ternationalism and domestic policy. These are
the problems most conspicuously before the
Republican leadership. Concerning the for
mer, he says: "... the G. O. P. cannot suc
cessfully counter Mr. Roosevelt if it insists
upon forcing the American people to elect
international chaos — via an isolationist or
equivocal foreign policy—as the only alterna
tive to the new deal.” He is less assertive
regarding domestic policy, restricting himself
to a plug for Wendell Willkie, saying: “It is
not surprising, therefore, to see Mr. Willkie’s
candidacy coming strongly to the fore, since
Mr. Willkie is one of the foremost Republican
leaders whose nomination would bring national
agreement behind a non-partisan foreign pol
icy and permit the campaign to be fought
on the unresolved issues of post-war domes
tic affairs.”
The problem, we believe, is greater than
that. It is essential not to leave post-war
domestic affairs “unresolved.” They should
be definitely defined and the objective set up
before the American people go to the polls
to elect the next president. It would be as
fatal to elect domestit chaos as it would be
to elect the international chaos Mr. Drummond
cites. The American people have had to en
dure that too long already.
What is needed, and it makes little differ
ence who achieves it, is a return to Jeffer
sonian democracy, which is ably summed up
in a single statement in the Declaration of
Independence, to wit: “Governments are in
stituted among men, deriving their just pow
ers from the consent of the governed.”
No candidate for the presidency will de
serve public support who fails to pledge him
self to end government by edict.
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Factor In Nazi Defeat
The damage to industries and communica
tions by Allied bombings in Germany have
materially lessened war output for the Nazi
forces. But this is not their only help. They
have also created labor unrest and stimulated
slave workers from conquered territory to
commit sabotage and slow down production.
This applies not only to factory workers but
agricultural as well and is reducing farm
crops. As it is reported that foreign labor
under Nazi domination, in and out of Ger
many, totals some 12,000,000 persons it is easy
to see how difficult it has become for the
Germans to keep any production at normal
levels.
The unrest and disobedience among foreign
workers is encouraged by the governments
in exile by means of underground advice.
The Polish government, for example, has sent
word to Polish laborers to commit sabotage
during Allied air raids over the Reich. The
situation has become so acute that Fritz
Sauckel, commissioner general for the Ger
man labor effort, has issued orders that all
leniency and consideration for foreign work
ers be stopped and severe measures substi
tuted, not only in handling those at present
employed but in securing additional laborers.
Stop everybody on the streets, he has told his
agents, and impress all persons not able sat
isfactorily to explain their absence from mills
or fields.
But Germany’s increasing labor difficulties
are not entirely due to the recalcitrance of
unvoluntary workers. They also stem from
German stupidity, in placing unskilled labor
ers at work on intricate machinery and send
ing experts to farms. Man'y factories, as a
result, have had a surplus of labor and a
shortage of materials, and have been turning
out faulty products because such materials
as they had were under inexpert supervision
and manufacturing processes were performed
by untrained hands.
Thus it is seen that Germany’s great scheme
of mobilization among captives is actually
contributing to Germany’s defeat. *
You Just Can’t Have Them
If you had any thought of going back to
the horse and buggy days you’ll have to get
along without hitching posts made from iron or
steel. The WPB says you just can’t have
them. And if you had an ambition to operate
a carnival or even a stationary “chutes park”
you might as well give it up. The WPB has
merry-go-rounds and roller coasters and cal
liopes on its prohibited list.
The WPB has issued a seventeen column
conservation order, designated as M-126, which
puts the kibosh on a great variety of things,
and as usual with bureaucratic edicts the
order contradicts itself. For example, it per
mits the manufacture of “cups’ ’for livestock,
and at the same time places a prohibitory
finger on pet beds, pet cages, pet dishes
(which would ordinarily include “cups” and
pet houses.
And you can’t have a barn pusher either,
or even a grass whip. But what is of more
interest to the ladies is when they, are to be
permitted to replenish their supply of bobby
pins.
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Fifty Years At Console
By LAURA HOWELL NORDEN
IN CHARLOTTE OBSERVER
To what servi- e can a musician better give
his talents and time, through the course of
years, than to Divine worship in church, cathe
dral or synagogue? When, as in the case
of Edward H. Munson, such service is ren
dered for more than 50 years in churches of
one’s own home town, among one’s own people
and for more than half the time in one’s own
church, it is natural that it would seem to a
fellow-townswoman as if the Giver of All Good
Gifts had bestowed the accolade of Acceptable
Service upon his long ministry of music.
Mr. Munson, who has been organist of the
First Presbyterian church of Wilmington for
nearly 37 years, resigned recently from that
position, wishing to be relieved of the week-in
and week-out strain of its responsibilities. Al
though “Mr. Ed.” is much more interested
in the present and future xhan in the past,
he was amiable to answering the questions
asked by this inquiring reporter as to his
past work.
Beginnings are always interesting, and usu
ally simple. With musicians beginnings often
should properly be laid to the singing of lul
labies, family gatherings around the piano,
or the sympathetic insight of a music teacher.
Mr. Munson gives much credit to the training
he had as a boy under Professor Van Lear,
a Dutch pianist, who taught for many years
in Wilmington. Subsequent organ study in
cluded training under I. V. Flagler at Lake
Chautauqua, N. Y., and later in New York
city under J. Warren Andrews, organist of
the Church of the Divine Paternity.
Let it be said here, that while Wilmington
(now the center of a defense area and vastly
overcrowded) may lack in normal times the
keenness of interest in industrial development
that has made other cities bustling metropoli
tan centers, yet this old city has always called
a surprisingly large number of its young men
and women back home for adult work after
a period of training. So it was, that Mr. Mun
son returned home to follow his profession
as organist. During these years he has served
five different congregations in the city: the
Second Presbyterian <iiow St. Andrews), St.
John’s Episcopal, the First Baptist. St. James
Episcopal and the First Presbyterian. Part
of that time, for nine years, he was organist
director in the First Church while that church
employed a quartet.
For nearly a decade Mr. Munson has headed
the Wilmington Concert association. During
his presidency the organization has functioned
continuously and has grown with the expand
ing community. The regard with which he
is held by the men of the city is shown in
the fact that he has been the musician mem
ber of the Wilmington Rotary club almost
since its beginning.
One of the important factors in developing
music appreciation in Wilmington was the
Wilmington Choral Society, which functioned
for many years until its ranks were depleted
of men by the demands of World war I. Mr.
Munson was the sole director of this organiza
tion.
In the 37 years during which "Mr. Ed”
has played at the old First Church, many
changes have taken place in the church, nota
bly the fact that a magnificent new edifice
has been erected as a result of a fire which
was heartbreaking to the congregation at the
time, and in the new auditorium a large
Skinner organ, known as the Sprunt Memorial
Organ, was given by that family. This in
strument is not equalled in the city, for sweet
ness of tone, power and capabilities of manip
ulation.
During the length and breadth of such serv
ice-many humorous things occur, which can’t
well be recounted. The organist also shares
with the minister in assisting at those two
events of prime importance in human experi
ence—weddings and funerals, and so touches
many lives.
Mr. Munson tells of one occurrence which
was far from humorous at the time, but un
doubtedly so in retrospect, which happened
in the old church, under a former pastor,
who is still beloved. One of the Calvinistic
tenets rigidly adhered to by Presbyterian min
isters formerly is that each Sunday, being
set aside as the Lord’s Day commemorates
the Resurrection, and therefore there should
be no special observance of Easter Sunday.
Faster music was frowned upon in particular.
On this Easter Sunday, therefore, the min
ister, to avoid all reference of the seasonal
celebration, took his text from the Christmas
story and called for the hymn ‘It Came Upon
the Midnight Clear’ to be sung just before
the sermon. The following Sunday, however,
since it was not Easter, Easter hymns were
used and the sermon chosen accordingly.
Incidentally, Mr. Munson also remembers
that during this minister’s pastorate, in one
year while the church employed a professional
quartet, with organist-director, the loose
change in the collection plates amounted to
$2,500. showing a- healthy state of affairs for
any church.
A few years ago, following an accident which
resulted in a broken hip, “Mr. Ed.’’ sent in
a resignation, but was over-ridden by the
choir and music committee and in a remarka
bly short time was back at his accustomed
place at the console. This time he expresses
determination to stick by his resolve to be
released from the strain of the position, and
have his turn ‘sitting in the congregation’. It
is safe to say, however, that he will continue
to be the guardian angel to his organ and
SiUbly comrUS f°r assistance which will
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TOUGH GOING FOR THE OLD BANYAN TREE!_
INSIDE WASHINGTON
WASHINGTON. _ Long time ob
servers accustomed to putting “two
and two together” in official Wash
ington believe there is more to the
panicky evacuation of Berlin than
meets the eye.
Both the Nazis and the Nips live
in daily fear that new American
long range bombers may soon be
gin to scorch and scar and blacken
Axis capitals with loads of bombs
hitherto considered fabulous. So
both are out on a fishing expedition
—the Nazis clearing Berlin and
Tokyo announcing that it is ready
for heavy raids.
It is no secret that when Amer
ica entered the war a 1,000 mile
round trip with a heavy bomb load
was something to be rated extra
ordinary. Since then an air corps
general has announced that the
“last of the little bombers have
come off the assembly line” and
Boeing Flying Fortresses made a
2,400 mile trip to ravage the oil
fields of Ploesti.
Moreover, there have been sev
eral raids on Japanese-held Wake
island from the American base at
Midway—1.200 miles distant. Not
long ago Allied bombers based in
Australia paid a token call at Soer
abaya on the island of Java—a
2,000 mile round trip.
More recently, an American
bomber made the first “operations
flight” in history between Canada
and the British Isles. With a range
of 3,500 miles, bombers can fly
from the Aleutians across Tokyo
and land in China for fresh loads
of bombs and fuel to make the
return trip.
So maybe—just maybe—the Axis
has something.
There is a story going the rounds
that some OPA appointments have
thoroughly aroused such a doughty
old Jacksonian Democrat as Sen.
Kenneth T. McKellar of Tennes
see.
According to very reliable re
port, McKellar was visited in his
office by a handsome and strap
ping young chap from Atlanta, Ga.,
who had been named price admin
istrator for Tennessee.
“Have you ever been in Ten
nessee before?” McKellar asked.
“Once for two hours when my
train stopped at Chattanooga,” the
price administrator replied.
McKellar then proceeded to
question his visitor about prices.
“What is the price of pork to
day?” the senator queried.
“I don’t know,” was the reply.
“And of guineas?”
“What are they?’ was the re
sponse.
Six months later the lad—then
27, who had been a department
store clerk—was in the Army.
High administration officials con
fidently predict that the food situ
ation will be under control by early
November.
iney iorecast mat congress win
appropriate money for government
purchase of basic commodities for
resale to the public—just as Eng
land is doing now.
Another part of the program in
cludes imposition of price ceilings
on livestock—long a bone of con
tention between OPA on one hand
and the War Food Administration
and Department of Agriculture on
the other.
Both steps comprise adminis
tive capitulation to Congress, hhich
has held out against all subsidies
which are not paid directly to pro
ducers. Price rollbacks are con
sumer subsidies and never benefit
the producers, House and Senate
contend.
Members of the United States
Senate are the aristocrats of all
the legislators of the country—over
shadowing even their colleagues in
the House of Representatives.
Every senator has at least three
rooms in his office suite—a house
member only two. Two small mon
orail cars carry senators between
their office building and the Capi
tol. House members have a sub
way but no cars.
In the Senate chamber each
member has his own desk and
chair. The hall of the House has
seats arranged in theater fashion
—and no desks.
But its also true that the House
restaurant serves better food at
much lower prices. A haircut in
the House barber shop is 35 cents
against 40 in the Senate shop.
Moreover, in his hot weather the
House restaurant serves an ample
glass of foaming brew. In the
Senate, it’s ice water.
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You're
Telling Me
Can you remember 'way back
when the customer was always
right?
! L !
Prehistoric birds, we read, had
no beaks. Must have been the
golden age for the worms.
! ! !
Hitler, Nazi admirers used to
tell us, has the magical touch.
Well, the German people ought
to be getting pretty tired wait
ing for Adolf the Magician to
pull that victory rabbit out of the
hat.
! ! !
Among other sport titles froz
en for the duration is that of na
tional hamburger-eating cham
pion.
! ! !
Women radio announcers, we
read, will some day replace men.
We knew they’d get the last
word.
; t i
Spain paid Christopher Co
lumbus a bonus of $420 for dis
covering America. History, how
ever, does not tell us how much
he had to pay back in income
tax.
As Others Say It
IT STICKS TO YOUR RIBS
Hail the peanut! From this
year’s crop, says the War Food
Administration, we shall have 23
per cent more peanut butter than
last year. There will be a lot
more peanut oil this year than
last, too; but that’s another mat
ter. We’ve all been eating pea
nut oil for years, in various guises
and not knowing it. But nobody
has ever eaten peanut butter un
wittingly. Now’ we can eat more
of it.
For a long time peanut butter
was regarded generally as a ju
venile item of diet, something to
spread on school sandwiches and
to fill up the inevitable young void
in mid-afternoon. Then somebody
added jelly to it and made a tea
room delicacy, which almost spoil
ed it for the masculine palate.
But along came rationing. There
as less cream for butter, and there
as less beef for steaks. Ana some
where along the line the word got
around that peanut butter had a
lot of protein and a lot of fat.
And it was not on the ration list.
Well’ there’s no need of starting
a run on the present stocks of.
peanut butter; but one can point
out that it has emerged from the
nursery and the tearoom has made
a place for itself on the adult ta
ble and in the w’orkikngman’s I
lunch pail. The grocers knew;
months ago what was happening.
Apparently the WFA has been let
in on the secret, too.
o hail the peanut, at least until
the milk cow and the beef steer
are back in full production. But
please hold the jelly. Now that we
hae finally got the peanut butter
sandwich on a solid masculine
basis, let’s keep it there. The
peanut butter sticks to your ribs,
but the jelly just sticks to your
fingers.
—New York Times.
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NEWSMAN HONORED
NEW YORK, Aug. 16.—UP!—A
Liberty ship to be launched at the
Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards in
Baltimore on September 6, will be
named the Heywood Broun, in hon
or of the late columnist who found
ed the American Newspaper Guild
in 1933, the Guild announced to
day.
The Literary Guidepost
BY JOHN SELBY
Grand Crossing,” by Alexander
Saxton (Harpers; $2.50).
I have a feelwig that a reason
ably astute reader can gather from
a description of young Alexander
Saxton’s background the sort of
book his first, and excellent, novel
will be. So here is his background:
He is the son of the late Eugene
Saxton, who was one of the best,
and best known, editors in the pub
lishing business. His brother is
Mark Saxton, novelist and adver
tising manager for a certain pub
lisher. Alexander was educated at
Friends’ Seminary down on Six
teenth street in New York, at Phil
lips-E’xeter, and later went to Har
vard. But when he was a junior
he transferred to the University of
Chicago, saying that he had had
“six years of Harvard or six years
of Exeter, whichever you Wanted
to call it, and six years was
enough.” After graduation he took
a postgraduate year in architec
ture, worked a while for an archi
tect, worked in railroad yards,
I steel mills, lumber yards, helped
Louis Adamic on “Commor
Ground.” When he wrote “Grand
Crossing” he was a switchman on
the New York Central’s western
t
division and doing a weekly col
umn on railroad affairs for the
Daily Worker. Now he is in the
merchant marine.
It seems to me that the fore
going makes it almost inevitable
that young Mr. Saxton should
unite a novel of young ideas and
that is exactly what he has done.
He begins his hero’s literary ca
reer with the boy leaving a job
on a western newspaper and he
ends with the hero running down
a toad with Aileen. In between
the hero, by name Michael, has
done a lot of things that his cre
ator has done.
Mr. Saxton writes beautifully.
His prose has a plastic quality
that for all its lack of fundamental
humor, manages to convey a sense
of living and a lusty enjoyment
of life. But one cannot dodge the
fact that almost without exception
the things young Michael does are
not used to develop Michael, but
to give Mr. Saxton a chance to
talk through Michael’s mouth, or
some other mouth. The ideas are
-hrewd, but for me as well as
t »ome others, the point of writ
ing fiction is to develop charac
ters through their lives. Instead,
Mr. Saxton develops these
Interpreting
The War
By KIRKE L. SIMPSON
The Allied strategic war counc 1
in Quebec approached its decisive
stage last night with every
cation that from it will fiow sriTc’
tions for bold, immediate action
to knock Germany as well a
Italy out of the war.
' The war developments in Hus
sia and in the Mediterranean then'
ter alone warrant hope that
months can be lopped off the du
tion of the struggle in Europe by
swift action now. To that Mess
Churchill and Roosevelt have add
ed, even before meeting in nUf'
bee to give a final thumbs-un
approval to the strategic pa„cm
crystalizing in the hands of their
most trusted military advisers
their own hint of what thev L l
in mind.
It came in the formal announce
ment that U-boats were destroy,
ed at a rate of better than one
a day during May, June and July
Admittedly that does not end the
danger on Atlantic supply ii,les as
the Roosevelt - Churchill bulletin
noted. It does, however, imply that
an internal crack-up in Germany
might be closer t .an am ail,.a
authority has yet dared suggest
The Kaiser’s Germany cracked
up first among the men of ti e
U-boat fleet. They could not stand
the loss of comrades who put |0
sea in ever-increasing numbers
never to be heard of again.
The Allied governments then
withheld information of actual pVu.
gress in besting the subman
menace in order to intensify the
strain on German U-boat persor
nel. The same technique has been
followed in a general way in thr
war and for the same reason.
The Roosevelt - Churchill clegs-,
ture from that procedure tot
close over their names that tilt
than 90 of the undersea craft had
been sunk in the three month per
iod (with the last month shov.i.g
better results at sea than the two
which preceded it) has special sis
nificance for that reason. It im
plies. at least, that a preliminary
to the battle plans they expect
to stamp with their approval at
Quebec, they have information in
dicating growing unrest in Ger
many itself under bombing and
submarine losses as well as de
feats in Africa, Italy and Russia.
The announcement was as much
intended for German ears as fur
those of Allied peoples. It told
them that their battle of the At
lantic had been lost; that there
was no reasonable hope of even
prolonged successful defense
against the growing ground and air
power of Britain and the United
States on the one side, and the
indomitable aggressive attack of
Russian armies on the other.
Given the sea control in the At
lantic that German U-boat losses
set out, there can no longer be
any doubt of Allied ability to de
liver smashing new attacks at ai
point selected in continental iv..
rope. The loss of 90 or more it:
der water raiders in 90 days is
heavy enough material toll ■
the foe. Wjth the ships went (lit
crews, however, and they cams
be easily replaced.
The drain on trained skilled man
power that this heavy U-boal cas
ualty list represents is probably a
more vital loss to the enemy than
the U-boats themselves. Survivin',
comrades of the Nazi submarine
service probably have already
scented what was happening ,r
sea: but with this Allied official
disclosure certain to be passed
around among them to increase
their anxiety, the effect on their
morale cannot be conjectured, but
it must be considerable.
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Daily Prayet
FOR FATHER CARE
In a great union of yearnin?
hearts, we turn to Thee, our Fa
ther in Heaven, as our only refute
and hope. Without Thee, and the
assurance of Thine almighty pow
er, we could not endure the strain
of this war. Into Thy hands we
commit the safety and well-bein?
of our dear ones. For their sake.',
for our Country’s sake, for the
sake of all mankind, and for Try
sake, we would bear manfully r
the strain and sacrifice of this
struggle. Hearten us, we pray, d j
clearer thoughts of Thee and o.
Thy purposes, learned from Trj
word. May our faith that the Eter
nal God is our refuge, and
underneath are the everlastu
arms, never fail us in this our ho
of desperate need. Grant us dad
renewed confidence that our ag
ones are in Thy fatherly keep:-'
and that Thou art working out «•;
plans of good, for this, the "
that Thou lovest so greatly ^
Thou gavest Thine onl.v S
its redemption. Amen.-W. I • •
NOT ALONE
A country boy and hi- 1
were transferred from
in a district in which they t) ,‘' ,
reside to the school in
district. Asked, a few nu
how they were getting .d I
replied, ‘‘Oh, pretty good. B
thing Otto and I have u , I
and that is that we ain i ' .I
dunces in that school." —
Science Monitors.
-V-"
HOG GAINS ^
Experiments have sa:-1",
gains made by pig" are : ;;
nomical at the lighter wx.P“-- j
to 225 pounds. Many g:o-‘e:,
market their pigs al abCl
pounds.