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BEDTIME STORY FOR CHILDREN
By THORNTON W. BURGESS
REDDY FOX TURNS UP HIS
NOSE
XJOW Peter Rabbit rather prides
•*-^ himself on his ears. To be exact,
1 suppose I should say that he prides
himself on his hearing. When Short
Tall the Shrew said that he heard
footsteps, and promptly disappeared.
Peter at once listened. It was a good
minute before he heard just the faint
est of rustling sounds among the
leaves. Very likely he would not have
heard them then had he not been lis
tening.
•'Short-Tall certainly ha« cot good
ears," thought Peter as he ducked
down and crouched very low under the
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Reddy Was Walking Vefiÿ Carefully.
thick branch of a little hemlock tree v
He had caught Just a gllmitee of some
thing red. Ilfs heart was In his mouth
in an Instant No wonder Short-Tall
had disappeared In a hurry! Those
footsteps were the footsteps of Reddy
Fox ! Peter did some quick thinking.
Should he run? If he did he would
give himself away. Reddy would see
him and then it would be a race for
hla life.
Peter decided that the wisest thing
was to sit tight just where he was.
Reddy didn't know he was about and
wouldn't be looking for him over there.
He hadn't been moving about for some
time, so perhaps Reddy would not find
his' scent. Decidedly the wisest thing
was to sit tight.
Peeping out beneath the hemlock
branch Peter watched Reddy Fox come
nearer and he knew by Reddy's move
ments that he was hunting mice. This
gave Peter a little easier feeling. Red
dy was walking very carefully. His
sharp ears were cocked forward ready
to catch the faintest rustle of a leaf.
With his sharp nose to the ground he
ran this way and that way, back and
forth, sniffing under every old log,
pulling apart every pile of leaves.
Presently he came to one of Short
Tail's little paths Reddy sniffed In
It eagerly. Then such a look of dis
gust passed over Reddy's face that
Peter wanted to laugh. Reddy turned
up his nose and left that little path.
A leaf rustled very faintly some dis
tance away. In an Instant Reddy
turned In that direction, ran lightly a
few steps and then with a quick long
jump landed with his black paws on a
little bunch of leaves. Peter couldn't
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"Bale of hay seen by a sleeping
donkey."
®. 1913. Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service,
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A ^ THE price of hops, used In the manufacture of beer, Jumped suddenly
n to 75 cents a pound, when 3,2 beer came Into effect recently, hundreds of
Oregon farmers started replanting their crops for the first time since 1029.
Here are shown some of the hundreds of women engaged in stringing up the
new vines on which the hops will grow. For many of them this la their first
work since the depression set In.
be sure but he thought be heard a
faint squeak.
Jkl once Reddy made the Tear ea Jliu
Then he sniffed among them and once
more Peter saw him turn up his imse
and that look of disgust went„-»Cross
his face. Abruptly he turned and trot
ted away. It was clear that he didn't
intend to hunt there any longer. Pe
ter was puzzled. When It was safe
to do so he crept from his hiding place
and went over to the spot where Red
dy had pounced on the little bunch of
leaves, and scattered them.
At first Peter didn't see anything but
the scattered leaves. He was still
wondering what caused Reddy to leave
In such disgust when be noticed a lit
tle round hole In the ground. Curl
ously Peter sniffed at 1L In an In
stant he understood. He remembered
what Short-Tall the Shrew had said
about that musky scent he carried and
how most of his enemies disliked It
Peter could smell It now. This was
an entrance to one of Short-Tail's tun
She Says Uncle Sanis Building Stands on Her Land
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New York post office which, she says, stands
on land that Uncle Sam has been using for the
past sixty years, on an old family lease, with
out paying rent She claims that old documents
now on file In Washington give her clear title
to land which has an estimated value of
$10,300,000.
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nels. The leaves had hidden it until
Reddy had scattered them. Probably
he had heard Short-Tall there, and
thinking It was a Mouse he had sprung
In the hope of catching Mr. Mouse.
Short-Tail had ducked down in his tun
nel and then Reddy had got that
musky smelL That, was why he had
turned up his nose and gone elsewhere
to hunt.
"I don't blame him much," muttered
Peter, turning up his own wabbly lit
tle nose. Then he grew thoughtful.
"Old Mother Nature certainly does
have funny ways of protecting her
children. Even a bad smell is useful
at times," said he.
®. 1933. by T. W. Burgas».—WNU Service,
GOOD EATS
E VERYBODY likes lemon pie, unless
there is something the matter with
their digestion or taste. Here Is a
nice thick one :
I Deep Lemon Pie.
Mix three tablespoons of cornstarch,
one and one-half cups sugar, add grad
ually two cups of boiling water and
boil five minutes. Add the grated rind
and juice of two lemons, cool slightly,
then add the well beaten yolks of four
eggs. Cut and fold In the whites of
four eggs beaten stiff and dry. Line
a deep pan with rich pastry and lay
an Inch wide strip around the edge of
the rim, turn in the mixture and hake
twenty-five minutes. Serve chilled. If
wished, a meringue may be added to
the top, using three eggs, making a
most fluffy pie. However the pie Is
AHEAD
By DOUGLAS MALLOCH
A MERRY road this road we tread,
Whatever' somber men may say.
There's always something still ahead,
There always Is another day.
Tonight I'll put my hurts away.
I'll sweep the cobwebs from my mind,
Go blithely forward, as I may,
And look ahead, and not behind.
I do not know what I shall find.
But this at least 1 always know:
The past shall never make me blind
To gifts the future may bestow.
If now behind me shadows show,
Before me there must be a sun.
Tomorrow Is the road to go.
And not a road already run.
Tomorrow is the only one,
The only highway left to trend.
The past Is past, what's done is done.
Whatever somber men have said.
The shadows are forever fled
From those who take the brighter way.
There's always something still ahead,
There always Is another day.
1933. Douglas Malloch.—WNU Servie*.
good without the meringue, and many
prefer It so.
Napoleon Torte.
Cream one-half cup of butter and
the same of sugar until very light ; add
four well beaten yolks, stir well, then
add one-half cup of flour, sifted with
a bit of salt, one-fourth teaspoon each
of cinnamon and clovés. Add one ten
spoon each of grated lemon peel and
orange peel, two teaspoons of grated
chocolate or cocoa, ten almonds grated.
Mix thoroughly and fold in the stiffly
beaten whites of the eggs. Pour Into
three buttered layer tins and spread
evenly—the layers should be very thin.
Bake fifteen to twenty minutes. When
cool put the layers together with mar
malade. Cover the top with marma
lade and then cover with a chocolate
teeing If desired.
w Cider Frappe.
Heat sweet cider to the boiling
point. Skim, strain through cheese
cloth. Chill and freeze to a mush.
Serve In stemmed glasses with pieces
of ginger for a garnish. Use either
the crystallized or the preserved gin
ger.
Tarts.
Bake small pies, using the patty pans
Inverted. Fill the shells with rasp
berry jam and top with whipped
cream sprinkled with pistachio nuts.
©, 1933. Western Newspaper Union.
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wear turbines round their heads.
BONERS are actual humorous
tid-bita found in examination pa
pers. essays, etc., by teachers.
'An'lsoceles triangle la one having
two feet of the same size.
A cone Is a round shaped thing that
starts with a big circle at the top and
continues down to a tiny one or rather
none at all at the bottom, and If it is
upside down It Is just the reverse.
In writing conversation you put each
person In a different paragraph.
A surfeit Is a cove, nook, or Indenta
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In the golfer's swing. Strong
wrists do not necessarily mean a good
golfer for these muscles may have
sacrificed their suppleness for strength.
If, Instead of trying to hit with his
shoulders or body, the average golfer
would think of hitting with wrists and
hands he would gain a better picture
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of just how the clubhead should work.
Oneway to gain the proper f celling of the
clubhead coming onto the ball is to loos
en the muscles of the wrists until the
hands seem to hang loosely from them,
apparently ready to fall off. The fin
gers must grip the club firmly enough,
but prop erly held the clubhead win
appear like the weight on the end of
a string. In this way the body can be
brought gradually Into the swing, the
hands and wrists waiting to help the
clnhhead through. One thus gets the
feeling of cracking the whip. In the
above illustration the dip of the club
head beyond the horizontal In the
backswlng shows how flexible Jones'
wrists are.
®, 1939, Bell Syndicate.— WNU Bernice.
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silk embroidered dots Is used to fash
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frock for hot summer nights. The
edge of the capelet, which reaches low
In the back, and the bottom of the
skirt are edged with ruffling of the
material. A touch of color la
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added In the cluster of violets worn at
the side.
he was three years old. The doctor
came every day and gave him epidem
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The Indians burned the white men
for steak.
®. 1931. BeU Syndicat«.— WNU 8«rvlo«.
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by William B ruckart
Washington.—General Hugh S. John
son, President Roosevelt's "Ira," (In
dustrial recovery ad
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Geta Action been moving with
so much speed that
he now has between thirty and forty
major Industries In agreement respect
ing principles and practices which
each group shall follow In getting In
dustrial machinery Into motion, labor
employed and buyers buying again.
He has accomplished these tilings by
sheer driving power coupled with the
full force of publicity. Industrial lead
ers have had to stand hitched, have
had to make concessions and have had
to abandon a lot of their own Ideas
In order to reach the agreements, but
Ira has brought them together because
the bulk of them were afraid of the
spotlight of publicity If they failed
to co-operate.
Developments under the Industrial
recovery act, the program which the
President drove througli congress as
a means of making partners of busi
ness and government, have begun to
show the extraordinary power accord
ed the President by that law. They
reveal likewise the enormous pressure
than can be exerted in the name of
the government of the United States
and the subordination to which even
traditionally independent and free
Americans will subject themselves in
time of stress. But. simultaneously, ob
servers here have noted the undercur
rent of anger among those same in
dustrialists at the use of the powers
of the government in the way they
are being used. In other words, I
think it is no exaggeration to say the
majority of the industrial codes were
worked out under duress and fear ami
that the majority of those agreeing to
each code had their fingers crossed
and their tongues in their cheeks when
they signed on the dotted lines.
General Johnson has a term—pine
apples—by which he describes the
knotty problems constantly recurring
In his negotiations with the various
industrial groups. It Is freely pre
dicted both among the Industrialists
who came here for their conferences
on the new codes and among wise
acres in the government that there
will be a surplus of pineapples along
with some other crops this year,
Ira had hardly been under way a
Johnton
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Ira had hardly been under way a
week with conferences In which the
codes worked ont by the industrialists
for governing their Industries were
being aired when up came the age-old
pineapple of "capital versus labor."
Capital ctfn not be criticized too much
for desiring to protect Itself, and la
bor cannot be criticized too much for
demanding what it considers to be Its
rights. Yet the feeling here seems
to be that each must go along within
reason under present conditions, or
else each will be put In the position
of cutting off Its nose to spite its face.
Ira was pretty "hard boiled" on this
program and a full head of steam was
developed that resulted in an Inevit
able blow-off.
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The blow-off came with startling
suddenness. Like lightning out of a
blue sky came Miss
Frances Perkins, the
secretary of labor,
and she laid down
some solid demands in a hearing be
fore Ira. She said that capital was
trying to take advantage of labor, that
It was sliding out from under the
terms of the law which created Ira's
job, and that Ira was moving with
such speed to get recovery under way
that labor was going to suffer. Miss
Perkins did not say it that way, yet
my language Is no stronger than hers.
That was an unexpected pineapple,
Indeed. Ira had been face to face with
several of them. This, however, was
the first shot from what had been
looked upon as a neutral In the war
between the capital and labor troops.
Correspondents who attended that
hearing were given the Impression that
Ira did not enjoy the labor secre
tary's speech one bit Seme of his as
sociates surely did not like It all,
but they were less restrained than was
Ira, himself, and the gossip around
Washington Is that Ira's staff will be
happy to see Miss Perkins remain In
her office which Is some seven blocks
from the colossal department of com
merce building where General John
son has headquarters.
Washington Is actually overwhelmed
with codes these days. Ira has his
crop of new codes of principles and
practices for Industry, Secretary of
Agriculture Wallace Is developing a
barnyard full of codes In attempting
to carry out the so-called farm parity
bill with Its processing taxes, options
to the farmers to buy ' hold-over cot
ton, and acreage reduction for vari
ous crops, and Agricultural Relief Ad
ministrator George N, Peek and Farm
Credit Administrator Henry Mergen
thau, Jr., ' have their codes. Each
one has Its definite purpose and each
one fits into the picture which Presi
dent Roosevelt Is trying to put togeth
er to lead the country out of the
slough.
But where are the codes going to
lead? Visitors to Washington these
days are many and It seems that on
the lipw of each there Is that question..
The whole program 1s so new and so
nntrlcdf on a national basis that It Is
quite natural to express some wonder
about- It.
Came the
Blow-off
1 have heard It suggested that the
various steps now being taken by the
Roosevelt adminis
tration probably con
Economic Era stitute the beginning
of a new economic
era. Indeed, one 'analyst declared
that possibly the arrangement of all
of the new codes of practice for In
dustry might conceivably represent the
start of a period In which the federal
government will become an industrial
referee or umpire. Carrying that
thought further, It was conceived aS
possible lhat fewer and fewer fed
eral laws would be enactod with ref
erence to control of Industry aud agri
culture. With a ferlerai umpire to
sit In judgment, for example, farmers
could organize and control their own
destiny, solve their own problems and
be Independent
That same reasoning, it Is asserted,
applies to every other line of com
mercial endeavor, j, It represents a
theory that private business, observed
from a watchtower by something of
a federal dictator, can and will man
age Its own affairs to a better advan
tage than can be done by continual
enactment of new and half-baked laws.
To that extent, therefore, Instead of
making partners of the government
and private business, the Roosevelt
program takes shape as a possible
move to put business on a plane to
do the Job Itself.
It seems pertinent to call attention
just here to the fact that, except In
wartime, neither agriculture nor any
other industry has ever received the
shock of Its life with such equani
mity as it has swallowed the orders of
the federal government. I have heard
It said that It would take Just such
a shock to awaken the individual mem
bers of the various lines of trade to
the necessity for complete co-ordina
tion of all of their activities and func
tions.
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the White House after a vacation, re
peated that he was
in deadly earnest
about the necessity
for boosting of
prices and that nothing Is going to
stand In the way insofar as the gov
ernment can control those factors.
His statement was but a repetition
Muât Boost
Prices
and a broadening of his earlier appeal
to the cotton farmers. To them, ho
sounded a keynote for the whole cam
paign of crop reduction. No doubt
exists that unless the farmers help
themselves, the crop reduction pro
gram and the consequent boost In
prices cannot be expected to succeed.
In other words, the situation Is this:
the federal government has set up
machinery for reduction of crop acre
ages. It has worked out a program that
means higher prices for that which
the farmers sell, and It has made a
part of that program an Inflation of
credit and use of federal funds. It
has resorted to Its taxing power in or
der to obtain funds to compensate
those who agree to cut acreage and
reduce the surplus. It Is up to the
farmers, therefore, to do their part.
The reason the President spoke of
cotton first was because that crop Is
still In a position and at a stage of
growth where part of it can be de
stroyed. It was explained In this con
nection that the growth to fruition of
the entire acreage of cotton now plant
ed would Increase the surplus to such
an extent that a carry-over of as much
as 27,000,000 bales was possible. That
figure probably Is too high, but the
point Is that growth of this year's en
tire crop would only add to the amount
of cotton already stored from previous:
years and the result obviously would
be a price reduction. Some market
experts say It might go down to 3^4
to 4 cents a pound.
Tobacco Is the next crop In line.
It still can be cut down. The Depart
ment of Agriculture is working on
plans to levy a processing tax to pay
the growers for curtailing that crop.
The tax is scheduled to be 5 cents a
pound and will be collected, as the
other processing taxes are, from the
factories that prepare the commodity
for market. A wheat processing tax
of 30 cents a bushel has gone Into ef
fect already to finance curtailment of
the surplus wheat acreage. And the
same can be written respecting pro
cedure for the other commodities.
Nevertheless, one can ask what good
the processing tax will be and what
will be accomplished by this vast
chine that has been sernp to help the
farmers unless they themselves
operate. The answer. If stated in can
dor, would be, nothing.
A few more weeks probably will be
sufficient time within which to Judge
whether the farmers are going to do
their part.
During the debate in congress when
the farm parity bill was under consid
eration, there were frequent references
to the possibility that the program
could not succeed because too
farmers would hold back.
So from whatever angle
amines the program, one arrives at
the conclusion that It is "up to the
farmer." If the price he receives for
his wheat or his cotton or his other
products falls to Stay around the point
where It Is profitable for him to
gage in the Industry, some of his num
ber have killed the goose that laid the
golden egg.
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