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Show CROSS TOWN Bv Roland Cod "Do they deduct from his pay for all of this idle time?' BOBBY SOX Marty Links ft s s S CD ' "MM 'Yes, Mom, I know it's midnight, but Alvln's just reached a point where he's asking me for another chance!" Kathleen Norris Says: The Hit-and-Run Marriage Belsas4 by Western Newspaper Onion. irX t fF r NANCY By Ernie Bushmiller I pnoo ,., 1 7 ) SOME NERVE fff, s M M I I I YOU POORU L IjTrfT IMAGINE f I v-vv j SRW somA 1 ri snubbing! iW I CLASSIFIED PEP A R T MEN! 10 APTOS, TRUCKS & ACCESS. STAGE-CSCRE Released by Western Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE JUST before Alan Young headed for Hollywood and (lis first motion picture he un intentionally entertained a miscellaneous gathering ot New Yorkers. They were watching the skaters at the Radio City rink. Alan was brushing up on his skating. He put on his skates, started jut, and slid not on ine sisaies julte a distance. The housing shortage short-age has separated the Young family temporarily; Mrs. wary Anne Young and the children fled to Seattle when they couldn't find a iome in New York, and she's been attending Washington State college, completing studies interrupted by marriage. Bob Crosby was getting along fine is a singing cowboy movie star before be-fore he joined the marines, and it BUSINESS & INVEST. OPPfn KATHLEEN NORMS MUTT AND JEFF By Bud Fisher I I i 1 r i infllfiT" If'" -1 I I t I fly. TV -y - ' LlilLt. KtUUI i r V v II " By Arthur Pointer Jl l I LK .. j REG'LAR FELLERS , I hmP I y Farbvou S;' I tLFl 1 (w,e it pionw ir aubostj f wow ( ( ) I ( smowi I (ft ; " ' i i i .v. - "-v -f ii Mr - - ' 1 Am two young persont could work their way to iuccul nwrrioge, if the were weWtrmned young creature, wno wast er nHVW By KATHLEEN NORRIS itt tar conditions have A certainlv out mar- - . - " v V V Hapa into tne mt- and-run category," says Judge Robert Williams Jr. of Suffolk, Mass. "Frequently now," he adds, "we have cases in.which it is admitted that the couple saw each other only once, twice or three times before they were married. "Often there is no such thinff as 'I want you to meet Mftrcurita the folks. The first time the J . . 1 J ,l. AT na rents see uiem is wuw they are brought home as inlaws." Court authorities follow this up with the statement that marrying on a mere speaking acquaintance was the cause of the frightful jump in divorce statistics: nearly 2,300 lust vear aealnst 1.500 in 1940, Twentr - three hundred hopeful young hearts no. twice that many, tor dots' hearts can break too, - wrecked and embittered and disappointed. disap-pointed. It is a fearful total of un-happlness; un-happlness; it Is something to make older married folk think. Where are we falling our children, that they can leap into tne mow serious relationship humans can know, so ignorantly, so lightly, and often so fatally? For fortunate second sec-ond marriages don't often follow on mistaken first ones. Sometimes the scars of the original failure last a lifetime. And if a child, or chil dren, result from these hit-or-miss matches, they start life on most un fortunate terms. Blamed en War. "Well," say the motlers and fathers ruefully, "this is one of the tragedies of war. The youngsters are demoralized and excited. Young men have been torn away from home and college, are to be sent to lar and distant countries, perhaps, never to return. Girls are prematurely pre-maturely matured by the atmosphere atmos-phere of chance, movement, emo tional crisis, dramatic situations. With so many chances surrounding surround-ing the future, girls and boys plunged ahead absolutely without thought "Maybe he won't come back for years. Maybe the war won't end for a long time. Maybe they'll live in some foreign country after the war." Maybe this and maybe may-be that, but not often the seber probability, prob-ability, the unsensational truth. Not often "maybe he'll come back Rw I n Kleia without a Job. Maybe we won't like uy -en ivieis . , h other more often. Maybe he'll Iook very different to me, out of his uniform. uni-form. Maybe he won't immediately get a good job after the war, and we'll face the necessity of living on the family. Maybe he ought to meet my mother and father first Maybe he's tied up with some girl in his own state or with half a dozen girls in half a dozen, states. Maybe I'll fan much more deeply with some other man, while he's away. Maybe May-be ril have a baby immediately, and have to give up a good job and start taking car of the baby." All these possibilities have come JOYS AND SORROWS OF MATRIMONY noted, hastily A avaw www-t- , - - contracted marriages entered into under the stress ana e citement of war, are breaking un at a iriehtenine rate. Miss Norris points out that it is part- ly the responsibility oj parents, who have failed to impress . . . . - upon Ifcetr children me serf ousness of matrimony, and the necessity for various adjust ments by both partners. Tha mirv and heart-break of these divorces can hardly be mlmdated. MISS PiOTTlS SOVS. Young lives are often perma- m I . I nently wrecked, oecause taose tvhn hanm nnr.a tailed to nna - i ' happiness in the married state the first time are frequently unahle. to make success of a second marriage. The early scars remain, and doubt and distrust arise easily. fiur narmnt arid Krandvar tmt understood the oroblem nf numia.Be better, in manv ways, than we do. They entered en-tered it determined to make a go of it, come what would. FOR SALE One Of the roost profitable fanrMaK, chicken combinations you will cvtt see. 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Files, Typewriter!, Aft I Ins Machines, safes, uasn neeisten. HALT LAKE DESK EXCHANGE IS West Breadway. Salt Lake City, lllul 311.t1S jnm I I I "Soys aearts can Iresk tee. . . " rash young couples. In New York a few months ago a girl asked her chum to eo with her to meet her husband, who was Invalided home, She had seen him about a dozen times in all. and was afraid she wouldn't know him. These quick marriages are dangerous dan-gerous enough, but the real danger lies in the quick divorces. If our boys had been somewhat schooled in the solemn responsibilities of hus- bandhood; If they had been taught gentleness, patience, courage, faith in themselves, that they hardly knew these girl-wives of theirs, it would not be so serious a matter. Making It a Success. If girls went Into even this higgledy-piggledy sort of marriage per suaded, under all the surface excitement excite-ment and hysteria and passion, that any marriage may be made a sue cess, if the wife determines that it shall be. Any two persons, granted the first physical attraction that hurled them Into matrimony as a start, could work their way to a sue cessful marriage, if the husband were possessed of tne aforementioned aforemen-tioned qualities of character and the wife were a sweet inexacting, sensible, well-trained young creature who meant the great promise she made when she said "I do." The glory of golden wedding days has shone on many a man and woman wom-an who hardly knew each other when their hands were united. My own grandmother, at 17, was summoned sum-moned to the library to meet the man to whom she was to be married mar-ried on the same day. Of clean strong Irish stock on both sides, neither the principals nor the devoted de-voted parents had any misgivings as to the outcome. If we trained eur children more carefully for the great duties at the marriage state, it would not matter so much who they married, and there would be many fewer divorces among them. MADE-OVEB CLOTHING Making ever garments for smaller small-er children ti more than merely cutting cut-ting them down to size. Colors, pat tern and weight of fabric all need to be considered in such cases. Fabrics Fab-rics adults wear, may be too heavy for a small child. If the material is not light enough in weight to be comfortable, use it for soma other purpose. Avoid stripes, plaids and prints that are too big for the child When planning a make-ever, con suit the youngster. Most times it's Just the little things that make clothes acceptable to childrc BOB CBOSBY looks as if he'd pick up that career again before long, now that he s dis- harged. Meanwhile he's returning to radio, on CBS Sunday nights at 10:00 (EST). When a New York subway accident acci-dent takes place in Hollywood it's worth mentioning. Eddie Bracken, Virginia Welles, Spike Jones and his City Slickers, Director William Russell and SO extras and crew members just escaped serious in' jury when a New York subway car split during a scene for rara- mount's "Ladies' Man"; seven people peo-ple were treated at the studio hos pital for minor cuts and bruises. Joe Klrkwood Jr., winner of Monogram's search for a young man to Dlay the lead in "Joe Falooka, Champ," tried his luck in Holly wood last April and gave up; he signed with Warner Bros., worked j in "Night and Day" and "THe, Ghost of Berchtesgaden," and re- turned to being s golf professional. (He's the son of the famous Joe i Kirkwood, Australian trick-shot pre.) , Now Monogram's signed him. j PERSONAL Man. 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Donna's husband, Tony Owen, and agent, took the cor respondence to Metro s Producer Sam Marx result, "The Beginning Begin-ning or the End." Johnny Weissmnller and Easier Crabbe, male leads of "Swamp Fire," have coojted up plans to go rieht on swimming. Weissmuller Is assembling a troupe to leave shortly short-ly on a tour of Central and South America; Crabbe and his swimming stars tour this country next sum mer. Am Ifyoowtchwrneasw-" yon lack all the natnnl ' Vitamins and ene?t natural oils yo..neeW be amased how Scott iW-can iW-can help build rnerW. andwswtanM.TryitlSs, many doctor good-tasting, hwh enenrv Buv at your owj . ' Here's One Of The Gr If vim lark RI OQD-IRC II JVM auvs " mp m t -Mm Anil women wbo W j from simple anemia tltfgM weak, "dragged out "-tM s su Jj !, f hlood-lron. bo trr J Plnkham's TABLETS-one a i" . hcSe ways to build "P'fi get more strength-ln such ham's Tablet, are one of tiy k. . , k,iM vn can oiuuu-irwu w". J Alfred Hitchcock brought Peter Von Zerneck, New York stage actor, to Hollywood for a role in "Notorious." During a two-day layoff lay-off Von Zerneck drove to San Juan Caoistrano to visit the mission and bought 20 acres of land before he left Says he'll hold onto it just as an investment Meanwhile Wil liam Gargan of "The Bells of St Mary's," has sold his San Jacinto ranch. Bonnie Blair left the New York stage for the RKO studio; she makes her screen debut In a barroom bar-room sequence in "Badman's Territory." Terri-tory." As a dance hall girl she saves Randolph Scott from ambush, so effectively that RKO plans to con tinue using her. ODDS AND ENDS-Onty Broadway stage players ere used on the CBS "Grand Central station, escepi for Madeleine Pierce, radio actress: sho tries like 6aby to Derlectly that the rule is broken for her. . . . When Co lumbia screens the radio thriller. Nieht Editor. Jams Carter wM play the feminine bad. . . . Although Bar-barm Bar-barm Stanwyck has been motion pic-lure pic-lure star for nine yean, fan will set her in technicolor for the first tune in "California,". , . Sis different languages are spoken in Paramount "Cateutla," starring Alan leaVL Ceil Russell and WillUm Bendit. , USE A a? L COLO PREPARAJ3 .mmn TABLETS. 5AWE, H0 CAlAlON-USE ONtV AS I .Si WNU W " ' m IDS' Help Them uew- . ofIIarmfulWy Yen Wdaeye are "Sj3aj w.t. rartter fron. the blK set act as Nature dr "? ,w,B.rM.5 Symptoms taay " theadacUs"S2 "in toUsS.di ader the . ' &l n usiety and m Other signs of kid "'i order are sometimes Dunu tao frMttsnt urination. asoairy ww, - - 181 |