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Show 9 SOUTH CACHE COURIER Rural America Has Major Role Q lu 'Annual Red Cross Campaign Agency to Stress Four Main Fields Of Service in 1947 Farm Leaders Laud Red Cross in Urging Support in Campaign Paying tribute to the Red Cross Clinton P. as a good neighbor, Anderson, secretary of agriculture, has urged rural America to support the 1947 fund campaign. It is a neighbor who works for a better local community and, at the same time, for a better world Anderson declared. community, Rural people are. grateful to the Red Cross. Rural America knows the value of good neighbors and gets real satisfaction from cooperating with them. Two other farm leaders, A. S. Goss, master of National Grange, and Edward A. ONeal, president of American Farm Bureau federation, also endorsed the current drive. Goss characterized the Red Cross pointservice as indispensable, ing out that throughout a large part of the world the suffering and need arising from war are almost as great as during the days of conflict. The great work of the American Red Cross, whose principal objective is the alleviation of human misery, has become legendary, ONeal asserted in his tribute. No matter how great the need, he continued, it has always been able to accomplish its mission of mercy because of the generosity of the American public. 8. three-quarte- rs CHAPTER XI w Although BIG PINEY, WYO. community this little cattle-raisin- g nestled in the Wyoming mountains has only 241 residents, it probably rates mention in the nations newspapers more often than any other small town in the country. Its not at all unusual for stories about weather conditions to include the statement that the coldest spot in the country was Big Piney, Wyo., with 20 degrees below zero. The dubious distinction of being the nations ice box is blamed by the weather bureau on a cold air drainage off the mountains lying to the west of the town, which is situated in a mountain valley of 6,280 feet altitude. "Masses of cold air drain off the mountain range into the valley just like streams of water, the weather bureau explains. There is also an elevation to the east. This inclosure prevents the wind from sweeping out cold air and warming up the valley. d Frigid blasts are almost a proposition. Big Piney had y only a growing season last year, compared with 148 growing days at Cheyenne, some 300 miles to the southeast. year-aroun- Street Strays SANTA FE, N. de las Vacas Street of the Cows has been lost or strayed in this ancient city. Notified that the street is 40 feet south of where it was originally established 60 years ago, the city council ordered the street committee to corral the straying street. M.-Ca- mino HELPING HAND . . . Red Cross Gray Lady Mrs. John W. Johnson has a long shopping list. She is shown adding items wanted by a patient at Bay Pines Veterans Fla. hospital, St. Petersburg,' Shell buy them at the canteen and downtown. in this country and overseas. Red Cross field directors are serving, giving emergency assistance, counseling and helping keep the men in communication with their families at home. In the field of community service, Red Cross disaster operawork Is a tion the country over. National, state aid local governments expect the Red Cross to assume leadership in disaster preparedness and relief, and rural areas know well the work of Red Cross following tornadoes, floods and fires. Red Cross first aid, water safety and accident - prevention services have been carried on in all com- munities of this country. First aid instruction for young people and adults, swimming classes for children of the community,' and spreading the gospel of safety from farm accidents, are several ways these Red Cross safety services function. Aid Rural Areas. g instrucRed Cross tion in rural communities where hospital facilities are scarce is receiving greater emphasis. Community nutrition classes teach the homemaker how better to prepare "r and preserve foods. The American Junior Red Cross, with its 19 million youngsters, provides effective channels through which school children throughout America may put to practice citizenship responsibilities and good neighbor practices' with children of nations overseas. round-the-clo- ck home-nursin- Although she has made her living for years as a dressmaker, Mrs. Myrtle Ann Dibble is as adept with a hammer and saw as with a needle and scissors. For proof, she soon will have a seven-roohouse completed practically entirely by her own efforts. Faced with a housing problem, Mrs. Dibble decided that if she could cut and sew dresses she also could run up a house for herself and her two young daughters. Work was commenced last May when the basement was dug, the only time Mrs. Dibble called in professional help. She mixed her own cement, the two daughters, Lauretta Lee, 13, and Mona Mae, 12, hauling the blocks while she 'set them. More than 1,000 blocks were required for the basement. A mason, inspecting the work, described it as a pretty good job. As the next step, Mrs. Dibble purchased green oak logs and had them cut into boards at a sawmill. She fitted them herself, displaying blistered palms as evidence that saws plenty hard. green oak Driving nails into that wood was the hardest job I ever took on," JACKSON, MICH. she adds. Mrs! Dibble did all the electrical work in the basement and plans to wire the entire house. She also will do her own plumbing. A divorcee, Mrs. Dibble used her life savings to start the house. With expenses running higher than anticipated, Mrs. Dibble was forced to return to dressmaking to get money to finish the house. lack of Sleep Termed Harmful as Too Many Cocktails Lack of sleep can same the symptoms as produce drinking one too many cocktails, declares J. P. Fanning who, as secretary and general manager of National Association of Bedding Manufacturers, has studied sleeping from every angle. There ought to be a law against staying awake too long, he insists. Persons who think sleep is a waste of time are as dangerous as those CHICAGO. who never want to stop drinking, Fanning warns. Sleeplessness, he adds, slows their reactions and makes it unsafe for them to drive automobiles. Anyone who feels sleepy ought to try walking a white chalk line," he says. They might actually be drunk, even without liquor. Fanning declares he has scientific proof that sleeplessness is as harmful as drunkenness. A group of sci What do you want me to say, Ive told you that theres noth-n- g wrong between Dave and me. m sorry if I look worried, but Im rying to run a farm under pretty terious difficulties, I have a son as gone off to war, and Im not are. as you ?oung Jill sighed, "Youre certainly a ievilishly stubborn female, Dooley Then she raised her McFarlane. lead suddenly, and her eyes widened and blackened with panic. "Dooley, is it Ric? Has something lappened? What could happen? I havent even had a letter from Ric. What she made you say that, Jill? esked, her voice sharpening a little. Well, knowing Rics capacity for getting himself into jams and your capacity for suffering about them, It was a logical question, wasnt rill? Churches Utilize Small Town Rates Sawing Proves Chartered Buses Frequent Mention Easy as Sewing, Woman Insists j4s boldest Spot9 To Swell Crowd As a PHILADELPHIA, PA. means of swelling attendance, 15 Philadelphia churches are engaged In a novel experiment of providtransportation ing portal-to-peservices. The program involves buses chartered by churches to make schedstreet uled stops at comers to pick up parishioners, carrying them to church and then returning them home after services. The 15 churches hire from one to four buses regularly every Sunday. Clergymen admit they are prepared to cater to members as a means of maintaining and increasing attendance. Attendance at Holmesburg Methodist church has been boosted 30 to 40 per cent in the year the church has used chartered buses. Historic Gloria Dei (Old Swedes) Protestant Episcopal 'church, situated in a neighborhood formerly residential but jiow entirely commercial, also has resorted to chartered buses. Old Swedes bus riders pay a minimum of 10 cents a ride, with the sky the limit. On a rainy Sunday, one grateful parishioner slipped the driver a $10 bill. Church officials agree that the problem is more transportation pressing now than ever and that it affects all denominations. Many families have moved from the old neighborhood, yet still desire to attend their old church. In other cases, public transportation is not available to residents of outlying areas and new residential districts. There was a personal humiliation for John L McFarlane in the situation, a sense of responsibility that showed in his haunted eyes and uncertain gestures. He had flared at her once, trying to ease his own torment, she knew. "If you had let me go ahead as I wanted to, you'd be in a decent he had snapped. position now, Youd haVe the advantage. But Richard isnt dead, Julia reminded him. "Richard is still Richard, hes still your son, hes still my husband, even if for years he has been living a lie. I have no son! he cried, his I never had a throat working. sonl I spawned a creature something with no honor, no manhood. I owe the world an apology for that mischance. But I will not dignify Richard McFarlane by owning him as my son. He has thrown away his name, he threw away his wife and children, he can throw his father away, too! He had marched out with his back stiff, and Julia had resisted the im- ' With a 1947 campaign goal of 60 FRIENDLY FLAVOR . . . Typical of the variety of Red Cross services that makes hospital routine take on the flavor of life outside are the various duties performed by Red Cross Gray Ladies at McGuire Veterans hospital, Richmond, Va. QV rtnrr: Jill McFarlane, whose lather, Richard, disappeared in World War I, falls in love with Lieut. Spang Gordon. He tells her that her brother, Ric, is seeing a divorcee and she is npset to find the woman in question, Sandra Calvert, is an older, hardened woman. Spang and later, while riding ays good-by- e with Dave Patterson, a family friend, she is thrown from her horse and taken to the hospital. That night Richard He tells her mother, returns home. Julia, that he assumed a new name, that of Captain Mackey, and is stationed at the same camp as Ric. Julll is heartstlck that he never acknowledged his children and is determined to keep them from knowing the truth. WNV Features. Rural America the provision stockpile of the nation has an especially important share in the current fund campaign of the American Red Cross, officials' at the Washington, D. C., national headquarters emphasize. million dollars, the Red Cross again is relying upon the rural areas and the small towns which center the farming communities for substantial support in attaining its quota. Because 1947 will be in the nature of a shakedown cruise for a nation newly returned to peacetime, and because in the uncertainty of the postwar existence many Americans are inclined to question the need to support even the most deserving of organizations, Red Cross officials have related the answers to some of the whys of the fund campaign. Major Red Cross responsibilin 1947-4ities will be four-fol- d to veterservice include They ans and their families; to men in army and navy hospitals; to men serving with the armed forces overseas or in this country, and to the community. During the war period of 1941-4Red Cross was supported by contributions in the amount of $784,151,000 in five fund campaigns. In numbers, rural community chapters 2,908 of them account for more than of all the Red Cross chapters in America. With the overwhelming majority of their workers unpaid volunteers the Red Cross said, these smaller chapters were the backbone of the ARC during the war and will continue to be so in peace. Expand Services. In the coming year, on a greatly reduced budget, the Red Cross will conduct a program exceeding any previous peacetime operation in its entire history. Services for veterans and the armed forces and their families will be the major concern of the Red Cross. The increasing need for assistance to veterans will continue for years. Approximately 1,100,000 veterans and their families were assisted by Red Cross last year through its workers in chapters alone. Thousands more were aided by Red Cross workers in hospitals. Under authorization of Veterans administration, there are 155 Red Cross field directors and assistant field directors in 105 VA hospitals. Nearly 350 Red Cross claims experts are stationed in VA offices throughout the nation, in Puerto Rico, Hawaii and the Philippines. On army posts and naval stations fi 5. 4 entists, he says, got 35 men 'roaring drunk by keeping them awake four days, after which they were as irresponsible as alcoholips. The sleep advocate says Hitler probably never would have torn the world apart "if he had gone to bed instead of staying up all night arguing in beer parlors. Napoleon also was a shunner of sleep, and look what happened to him, he adds. out, Dooley g back, afw this. I dont think he expects It v, didnt talk about it. He was vet, casuaL You know Richard, that lm. pervious, arrogant way he had? a hasn't changed. He came expecting you to swo with delight at seeing hint, doubt and when you werent over. come he kept a remote and slights condescending attitude. Yes t 1 . know. I dont know what he expected : e came in as coolly as though he'd i only been gone a week. He asked about the children. I was so thank-neither of them was there. Joha was in a rage. He wouldnt even shake hands with Richard, rm so sorry for John I. I ache all over." I 'Chin up, Dooley. This puts an end to all the uncertainty at least the unease that has been unhappy so long. 'I wish I could see the end, sh said. But its perfectly clear," he at. You dont oJed. Then sharply, mean that you want him back-no- w? mak-yo- She shook her head. "He shamed me, Dave. I know that I was young and silly. I suppose I bored him after the first excitement of being in love with me cooled into common- place responsibility, into the dreary chore of having to clothe and feed me, having the babies coming all that But why the Logical enough. Do you know lanicky attack? omething about Ric that I don t mow? No. Jill kept her eyes on the I told you I only saw him effing. or a few minutes. He had some :ind of duty. She could not add the blonde Mrs. lalvert to Dooleys mental burden low. When Ric was shipped out tom Ridley Field that would all snd, anyway. Dooley, if you sent Spang a egistered letter telling him about ne, it would be forwarded, wouldnt "I dont know much about army Dutine, Jill. Youll hear from him, ront you, when he has a definite ddress? "I dont know. He might be where e couldnt write, maybe for weeks -might be for months. Dooley he Tears lssed me good - by! queezed between Jills guarded yelids. ' That makes you one of the great ompany of women who wait, then, wd your job is to wait patiently, nd not worry Spang with a broken ,rm that will be healed before he iears about it "The trouble is, I dont know rtiat Im waiting for. You arent engaged to your then? No he just kissed me and said o keep that till he came back. And, Jooley sometimes they dont come iack! Father didnt come back! She did not see the quick, drained pasm that changed her mothers ace Into a hollow mask of torment. Thats part of it, Jill. Thats vhat I wanted to spare you, if I lieu-ena- that lets you Well, cant expect to be taken m T Dooley, youre not going to s blame yourself for this mans worthlessness, his utter lack of decency or honor! I have to blame myself, Dave. Another woman might have made a man of Richard, might have made him want to be a man, at least." Richard McFarlane had every He threw his chances chance. away. He deserves no sympathy. I wont let you harrow yourself like this. She gave' a little choking sigh. "I suppose I should try to act like an outraged wife. Perhaps I can when Ive got over being stunned." The next move, Dave said in a I tone, is for you ' calm, business-lik- e to get a divorce. She shivered a little. Thats just i it, Dave. I cant do it What do you mean, you cant? If twenty-fiv- e years of callous deser--; tion isnt' legal grounds for divorce, dont know what would be. j she Of course I have grounds, agreed, "but Richard isnt Richard now. Hes Captain Roger Mackey of the air corps. Think what it senA nation-wid- e would mean! sation. A military investigation. A cheap story to spread in black headlines in the cheap press. Humiliation for me and for Richards old father. And for Ric and Jill Dave, dont even dare to think of what it would do to Ric and Jill! They arent children, Dooley, Theyre adults and strong enough j to bear the truth. a : .fc as, J Dave, Richard is alive. pulse to follow and comfort him. This was something they must each bear alone. She with her harried anxieties and mortification, and this proud, stricken old man with his bitter memories. She would talk to Dave now, she decided. He was sitting in his little cuddy in the bank, when she went in, the niche where he met farmers and handled crop loans and mortgages. He looked up at her with a twinkling smile and sprang quickly to his feet, to pull out a chair for her. "Sit down, Dooley. Hows Jill? Shes quite unhappy, but that will pass. The arm is healing nicely. Are you busy, Dave? Will you be free soon? 'Im free now if you need me. Something wrong, Dooley? I want to talk to you. Could we go out and sit in my car? for his hat, Dave reached slammed a drawer shut. Come along, he said. Julia started the station-wago- n when Dave had climbed up beside her. Its too hot to sit still Ill find a shady place. Or Ill keep driv- nt "It wasnt your fault that I fell, ad over heels. I did it with my es open. And Im willing to pay. wont welsh, no matter what life nds me. Im a McFarlane, Tike u. But not to have anything! ju had memories you had Ric id me. I have nothing! )hn I. Denounces is Son Julia caught herself Memories! tore she laughed aloud. Memo-- s that burned and shamed. d I had my' children, she her voice, "but there were les before your grandfather came d got us when I didnt know what I was u were going to eat unger than you, I had always en taken care of, I hadnt even There are ye jommon sense. mpensations, Jill. Personally, I nk your Spang an extraordinarily se and decent young man. He is taking care of you. Not many n have the strength and foresight do that when they fall in love. .But I dont even know that he If you Jr fall in love, Dooley! Ink hes being noble. Ill try to But listen, we Ink that, too. ednt have two lorn women in a house. You go ahead and mar Dave. Julia started a little. Then she Dave hasnt asked me. It id, )uld be more maidenly to wait itil he did, dont you think? Im Your grand-the- r ling now, darling. and I are still trying to run farm. She had to tell Dave. That thought as heavy on her mind and heart she drove the station-wago- n rough the town. Dave did not tow, as yet, that Richard McFar-n- e had come back. Sharing the weight of this new oblem with him would be a relief, ough not kind to Dave. She could t talk to Richard's father. The d man had withdrawn into a sav-g-e mood of gloom, and her to draw him out of it had tly irritated him; she could not irt him anv more. con-ille- i ts ' A Struggle of I I Torn Emotions Even if they are strong and Ric f mother, f I know that Ric has a weak strain in him. I But even agreeing that they are isnt strong, Dave. Im his but Im not foolishly blind. mature enough to face a ghastly sit- - j uation like this, think of the cruelty of it Id be destroying the one j fine thing Ive been able to give j them. I gave them a hero for a j father a dead hero and I can't snatch that father away and show them a coward instead! It would do incalculable harm. To Ric espe- daily. Cant you see what it would do to Ric, when hes so unbalanced anyway by the unbalanced ing. recklessness now in the world? wear Dont a "Find shady place. Cant you see that it would ruin out your tires. Dave asked no questions. He did him? Hes proud. Hed despise it, not hurry her. That hurt, too, his me, undoubtedly. I cant do . Dave. of her sensitive understanding mood. Why should your son despise you? You arent talking sense. Dave Is Told Because his father despised me to abandon me. Id be enough About Richard pathetic figure in my children's Dave, Richard is alive. eyes, Id be pitied by people who. There was a sharp silence, so in have respected me. I cant do it tense that Julias skin began to cant prickle. Then Dave said, hoarse Dave leaned forward, his face All ly, "How do you know? and grave and weary. Ive seen him.", She kept her gray If thats the way Dooley. right, eyes straight ahead.' He carte to you feel, theres' nothing I can say the house Sunday night. But how else can I feel? Julia Hes in the army, Julia went heard a voice that broke and cried, on. Hes a captain in the air corps. and was a little startled to diHes at the same field where Ric scover that it was her own. 'T is." for trapped. Theres no way out "So all this time me. You can see that, surely?" .All this time," she repeated flat I dont know whether I see it or ly, he had stayed away because he sacnot Dooley. I see you, bent on didnt want to come back! this to still further Dave snapped. rificing yourself "The hound! all these harbored dream youve now when . And I suppose youre me one thing. Are you on your feet, when things would be years. Tell In love with Richard McFarstill s easy for him he has changed his lane? mind? its quivShe' stilled set her face, He said, Julia gave a hard little laugh, that he realized sudden- ering. any No, Im not in love with him ly that he missed me! ago. died e long that think I more. twenty-fivafter Very suddenly even I know now that it died. Not years! Did he have any excuse 1 saw him when alive came a spark any explanation? one feeling an ouHe didnt offer any excuse. It I had only had indignation. seems he got bored with the war traged and terribly hurt in my own me made He cheap and wandered off to Paris. In the a hobe can that and confusion after the armistice he got eyes, Dave, was I something that hold of some other mans papers, rrible feeling. thrown been away. had he changed his name." 1 ' . na d VAIll haIIawaJ Knanfk u (TO BE CONTINUED) t |