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Show Th Cnch? American. Iurnn. Carhe Count v. TTtnh CHILDS GPllWtKM Colds CuKecri'-.RO- Most young mother use this modem way to relieve miseries of children s colds. At bedtime they rub Vicks apoRub on throat, chest and bark. Grand relief starts as VapoRub . , . PENETRATES to Upper bronchial tubes with its special medicinal vapors, STIMULATES chest and back tur faces like a warming poultice. Often by morning most of the misery of the cold is gone! Remember ONLY VAPORUB Civcs You this cial double action. It's n the home-proved- ... time-teste- .. d, home best-know- remedy for rcliev-- Ing miseries of children's colds. a sp. ICKS V Vapo rui SNAPPY FACTS ABOUT RUBBER Riero ore two big "unknowra" n trying to onlicipoto the o van too I "bolonca of power" betwaen natural and synthetic rubber. In the opinion of John I. Collyer, President of Tho B. F. Goodrich Co. Them unknowns aro retpectivo production carts and Iho relative value of these types of rubber In different kinds of products several years hence. During the manufacture of one variety of synthetic rubber, materials mutt bo kept at temperature of 100 degrees below tore. Use of rayon has Improved Iho performance of synthetic truck tiros os much os 375 percent compared with Kras made of cotton cord, tome Industry authorities report. REGoodrich rR: THE STORY Tilts Croy and kla ml selfied ea s farm la Ml lonrl where llomcr was bora. Homrr was tha Srst Croy to so lo bl(b school and follfi. la Nrw Torb ba worked oa I wonui'i maiatiD. wroia a aovrl, ind a play. Hit father and mother both died and Homrr mortgaged tha farm to help out a rrlaUva who wa la terloot trouble. Ila thra wrota a dealer training Blm whlrb brought la enough to pay olt Homrr published and tha mortgages. old for a profit a msgailos for authors. :be served with the Y.M.C.A. la World Show War I, wrota radio venloa of Boat" and worbed with Chi Sale and II jwas secretary of Authors League. tontlnoed with bis sovel wrlUng. CHAPTER XXIV Men were posted In the wagons to Jrive for the women, a starting gun ,was fired, and alowly interminably jit seemed to me the wagons Inched 'across the field. Those women knew 'how to strip ribbons, pick up down' leorn, and keep on the throwboard. They were the farm women I had known all my life tanned, shape-desamazingly capable, equal to any emergency, overworked and un 'derpaid. At first glance, however, they didnt look like women, for 'most were In overalls, with men' hats pulled down over their hair. iThey were there to work and that 'was exactly what they were doing; aort of rhythm, the 'regularly, in Jearg of corn beat on the throw-- i boards. But the women were feminine after all, no matter what their cover-all- s said. For a quarter of them were wearing shoes. If my mother had come out d to the field in a pair of shoes. Im sure Pa'd 've sent her back to the house. Timet change and conditions change. But people don't; for these women were as my mother was except for the Item of the shoes. Sometimes it seems to me, people are the one constant factor in the whole scheme of things. When the gun went oft the second time, the women climbed into the wagons and the wagons started for the scales where the corn would have to be weighed; and the gleanings, too, and the overlooked corn. One woman, before she would allow herself to be driven through the cheering lines, brought out her lipstick. I am glad Pa never saw a Womens National Corn Husking Contest He had stood up under many things, but a lipstick In a cornfield might have proved too much. I asked one of the winners what she was going to do with the money. It was going into a college fund, she said. Then glanced proudly at her son she had by the hand. The contest was held near a farm owned by former President Herbert C. Hoover. I had never been on his farm, so now we drove to it and I walked across it thrilled to have such a distinguished fellow farmer. When I saw the condition the farm was in, I knew it was just as well be had stuck to politics. Once, at the behest of his political guides, he had come back to make a speech, just as Farmer Will-ki- e bad gone to Elwood, Indiana, son of to show what a callus-handethe soil he was. Mr. Hoovers fellow farmers came to see one of their kind. The crowd became so great that Mr. Hoover adjourned to his front porch and started to talk to his friends. His friends were more friendly than he knew, and crowded on the porch. Suddenly there was a noise, and a shock, too, and Hoover and his friends and the porch went down. There was a scramble but, after a few moments, Mr. Hoover was able to right himself and went on with the alarming condition of the country. The porch is still there, in about the fix the speech left it in. When I got back to New York, I went to the Dutch Treat Club, and there was my neighbor. I went to him, after he had finished lunch but was still sitting at the table, and said: Mr. Hoover, Im going to say something to you that no one else in this club has ever said. He glanced at me, evidently wondering what to make of this approach. I said, I walked across your farm in Missouri a few days ago." Now he did look with interest. "Well, how is it? I told him just what I had seen. That it was in poor condition; the outbuildings were falling to pieces, the house needed painting, the fences were down, the gullies were washing and the soil itself was overcorned. Even, I said, one side of bis cave had fallen in. He asked questions and I told him just how the farm impressed me. Then he wanted to know if I would be interested in buying it. I told him that 1 did not think I would. After I left, he went on smoking; but more thoughtfully, it seemed to me. Maybe it had dawned on him that he hadnt been cut out to be a farmer. All visits are not so glamorous; there are plenty of hard, practical problems to solve. And so Spide and 1 and Lloyd stand on the south Bide of the barn and try to work them out. How much land should go in wheat? How much in corn? How much in rye? This is complicated by the fact that the government must always be reckoned with. We will be paid so much for rais s, high-heele- high-heele- d POSTS Rnsm BRAN COLDER FLARES OF fVREAr ARP BRA COM3RED WFR SCGAR-SfVEE- EEADER delicious T RASAS NEW Good? breakfast idea Its delicious! Its a ma- gic combination of nut-brow- Post's 40 Bran Flakes plus lots of seedless raisins... right in the same package. Better ask your grocer for the big package today. Your whole family will go for Posts Raisin Bran. crisp-toaste- d blue-and-whi- Comes in mighty nmdu! I wouldnt be without it a day . . get it off the shelf for everything from Dads head cold stuffiness and Grannys neuralgic headaches to little Jima chapped hands and scraped knees. Its a real family friend ! In jars and handy tubes, 30. Amo d Pa ire Seven Quaint Garden for Your Bed Linens homer. you grew last year? Of course you remember them the oecds you planted from a Ferry pocket; tha luscious, ripe fruits; g flavor of tboae the fresh salads ; the inviting array ci can you put up for winter. Ferry Seedsare ready again tohelp tnakeyour garden yield a maximum of success and enjoyment. Have a bet tar garden with Ferry's Seeds. On sale at your favorite dealer, Y mouth-waterin- ing this; and so much for not raising cent. I remember my mother said: Homer, I wish you didnt have to At we walk across the farm, I see go oft to the city with a bole in a compickcr at work. It Is not on your telescope. our land, but In a few days ont My mind racca away to St. Joseph will be enatchlng of? the ears on our where ! saw my second streetcar land. I think back to the days and 1 think of something that hapwhen my father shucked corn end pened, later, when I came to have my mother came out and helped aa a friend the man who Invented him, and that night poured tallow In the electric streetcar, Frank J. the cracks In bis hands. And 1 Sprague, and he told me thia streetthink back to the days when I car line was the accond in the Unithusked, too surely the hardest work ed States. in the world. The land doesn't yield We go into " 'Renro Davia room. aa it did then. Fertilizer la going Two sacks of shelled corn are on on It something my father never the floor. We dont dare leave our dreamed of. And there are a mil at the barn, says Spide. hybrid lion buga and Insects busy at the Mice. corn and at the land, pests be never Thia room should be papered, heard of. The vast fertility of the Nellie. says prairie soil ha been depleted. But From room to room we go, and it's still black loam, still the finest from place to place, then outside. cornland in the world. The kitchen foundation is getting We have dinner. In Nellie sits the chair nearest the kitchen, where weak in the knees; well have to have the cement man out. my mother used to hop up. Spide We go Into the basement under only bows hia head, for the Logani ere Catholics. I think of my father the parlor, and I think of the time sitting in Splde's chair, and a choky my father got the acetylene gas feeling pushes into my collar. A craze and had a machine Installed little disappointment about dinner, in this cellar room. The machine for the cooking isn't aa good, and was supposed to dump pockets of the food isn't at good, as I remem' carbide into the water and make gas ber it After all, there nothing to for our lights. One night the maseason food like a couple of plow chine didn't work and Pa told me to handles. take the lantern an go down and After dinner, house problems. EV' see what was the matter. I came ery room must be Inspected. A new Into this room, opened the machine and peered Into its depth, aided by the lantern. Suddenly there wa an explosion and I waa knocked as fiat as a doily. In the back yard, behind the new house, is the house where I was bom. If there are any chickens In it. I'll wring their necks. Thank God there arent In the floor is the augurhole where I used to see the water drain oil and wonder where it went; and under the clock shelf is the very nail where our Hostettera Almanac hung. And a little to the left is the wall where Pa kept the International Harvester calendar. with circles around the dates when the cows would freshen. Then to the henhouse. The roof leaks. 1 dont know why it is, but henhouse roofs always leak. Put that it take a bit of figuring. that down, too. We have supper and that evening the neighbors come in, the boys We go into Remember the tomatoes "Remo Davis," room. ceiling will have to go into this one. But Nellies who lives In When his Omaha, is a plasterer. vacation comes well invite him to see us," says Nellie. So thats taken care of. Why! this is the very room where my father used to fall asleep over his livestock paper. The very one where I used to read the farm papers. What does the farm boy of today read? Well, he reads the farm weeklies and semimonthlies (Wallaces Farmer is still going strong) and he listens to the National Radio Hour and to the market prices as they come in over the Midwest stations. The mail-orde- r monthlies are all gone; but there has come to take their place a plague of cheap movie magazines and radio guides and comic supplement magazines detailing the adventures of Superman and his kind. And the hired man, today, instead of having pictures of race horses pinned on his wall, has Poses of Beautiful Art Models. Sometimes I wish the mail-ordmagazines hadnt gone their way. We look at the bathroom. The nondecaying wallpaper has about decayed. So that goes down on the list. It is a single duty bathroom; merely a bathroom and nothing else. 1 am asked by my curious city friends what a woman on a farm does when she wants to be alone. The answer is simple. She does as the women have done for three quarters of a century. Goes to an arrangement in the back yard, or in the edge of the orchard, designed for that very purpose. Naturally in winter time there are certain problems to solve. But she solves them and never once thinks of herself as underprivileged. That Croy bathroom means something to me, for it was the first In all the neighborhood. People came as if to a shrine. I turn to Nellie and say: How many bathrooms are there in this neighborhood? She and Spide count it up. On the ten farms nearest ours there are two bathrooms. They still go out back. And thats today in the black loam section. We go upstairs to the northwest bedroom and my heart goes flutter. This is the room where I had my panel of Six Famous American Authors. There's where the old Bar-locused to repose: on the wail was a picture of Victor Hugo and right under it I read Les Miserables. "Homer, the roof leaks, says son-in-la- k Nellie. This is the room where I packed my telescope with the mousehole. How long ago that was! Yet how re and girls Ive grown up with; and with them their children. And, here and there, a grandchild. It just doesnt seem possible. But there they are, staring popeyed as if I was Rip Van Winkle. We talk about the weather and crops, just as we used to; and how the schoolteacher is panning out Then about wrhat the government says well have to do next. Thats all new. And puzzling. But on the good side. Our farmers like what the government is doing. They know about the tall buildings, for theyve seen them in the movies; but the subway is different When I tell them that the train I go to Washington Heights on, runs three miles under the ground without stopping, they glance at each other again. Well, let him talk, His father and mother tried hard enough. After my lies are over, the conversation again swings back to neighborhood matters. Mysteriously Nellie and Opal get up and tiptoe out and there is a clinking in the kitchen. Refreshment time; pretty soon we are eating ice cream and homemade cake. Not ice cream made on the back porch, in a saltwater freezer, but fetched out from town. And not as good, either. The children are getting restless. nine. Why, we havent Its half-pabeen up that late since Grandpa died. After a while theyve gone and the house seems lonely and empty just as it did when I was a boy. A train whistles in the distance and an exquisite agony lays hold of me. And now, as I lie in my old room, I think: Some day Ill be no more, and when that day comes Id like to have my ashes sprinkled on the farm. The next day we go in to trade, but now it takes only a few minutes to clip off the six miles. What wouldnt I have given if old Dave had had six cylinders? Its a farming town, the guidebooks say, then add: Industry none. Theyre a little off. for theres the lightning-rofactory. A dozen people employed there, counting, of course, the office workers. Youre nobody if youre not proud of your home town. We have some names. that wer proud of men who were born the county and who have disti guished themselves. Theres Geori Robb Ellison, judge of the Missou Supreme Court. Remember I me tioned a boy who went to Harvai and came back with a feather-e- d haircut? Well, that was George. Ar theres Merrill E. Otis, Feder Judge. Kansas City. (Hes the or who sentenced Pendergast.) Da Carnegie, the writer and lecture Ed H. 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