Show THE GARLAND Kathleen Norris Says:' The Despairing Bride Bell Syndlclt— WNU Ftaturva TIMES GARLAND UTAH Farmers Urged tO Check Fire WaStC Army’s Jeep Is Mechanical Jack of All Trades Safety Methods Stressed During Prevention Week NEW YORK— “Feed fighters —not fire! ” is the slogan of this year’s Fire Prevention week (October 3 to 9) during which time farmers will be urged not only to eliminate fire hazards but to take the additional step of learning how to cope with fires at their start According to fire safety authorities the annual rural fire loss of 3500 lives and nearly $100000000 worth of property could be sharply reduced through the observance of 'safer rules and the use of efficient “first aid” fire fighting methods A majority of farm fires according to the National Fire Protecare due to Just sevtion association In the approximate oren causes der of their importance these are: tl) Defective chimneys and heating (2) Combustible roofs apparatus It " The (4) Spontaneous (3) Lightning ignition (sometimes called spontaneous (5) Misuse of electriccombusUon) ity (8) Matches and smoking (7) Flammable liquids To prevent fires due to these causes follow these He of to camp ond Louis camo homo When toe met again tl toot to have the knowledge that my marriage was a mistake grow daily stronger fly KATHLEEN ”0U i i have never t vk re- ceived a letter from a more despairing heart than mine” Porter from dustries center in Michigan “I have so completely wrecked my life and my chances of happiness in life that if we were face to face I could not tell you my story But I can write it and ask for advice and I know you will save me if you can Many times I have thought of ending it all but although I have not ' prayed for years I of wai raised in an atmosphere strict religious belief and I hesitat! to kill myself— it seema to me a grave ain And I have not actually foolish tinned and 'Wedk aa am I was 18 In June "Seven month ago working aa a riveter I met a young man who waa destined to leave for the army last lov fell We and were in July married I have no family and hia la In Oregon where they have asked me to come and stay Louis is a fine man quiet and without any educational or cultural advantages bis first letters were somewhat of a shock to me for although he Is 28 he writes like a boy of ten But we thought ourselves in love and would not wait to try our affection by delay or absence "After he left I met another man a different type This man Is vital amusing successful and popular He la far better educated than Louis When I met him I did not tell him I was married seemed a Joke then It was at a service dance he me to be even younger supposed than I am and aa the few girls 1 knew didn’t know anything of my private life h suspected nothing We went about together after that always may ! say with strict propriety and presently discovered ourselves to be really in love This was quite different from the first affair it caused me as much misery aa Joy and I knew no one ever would mean to me what Jack did He went off to camp and Loula came home When we met again it was to have the knowledge that my marriage was a mistake grow dally stronger The frantic distress this caused me Louis suspected you may imagine nothing and was completely happy we spent every hour of his leave He was being sent to Aftogether rica Immediately afterward I did not have the courage to tell him of my feeling for Jack but when Jack in turn came home he persuaded me to write the absolute truth to Louis that I had been foolish to marry so young and so hastily and that I wanted him to set me free I wrote quite a long letter making it aa gentle and affectionate as I could and Jack and I began to plan our marriage Baby ta Complicate Situation Two weeks ago a dreadful suspicion was confirmed by an old kind doctor who is here at the plant 1 am going to have a baby I know nothing of babies I have never had anything to do with one and I am and horror at sick with nervousness the mere idea My letter to Louis is on its way may not reach him for and Jack has gone gone weeks diswithout one word of gusted with me and no wonder! home no and no family I Having do not know which way to turn I can go on working until after ChristDivorced from mas— then what? Louis with a baby to support what ' and think and can I do? I think my head spins around and 1 feel ill and giddy most of the time Jack’s when I told him left consternation me In no doubt of what he feels: he it J NORRIS WARTIME DILEMMA She it married to a toldier with very little educational background During hit the met another young man whom the felt wat more her type She wrote to her husband ashing him to let her free But toon afterward the discovered the was going to be a mother The second man hat gone to camp disgusted that the did not break from her husband sooner Iler letter it on the way and to it the baby At 18 the girl it to upset the feelt on the verge of suicide She asks Kathleen Norris' advice and gets it said that I should have told Louis the minute he got home and all this Please could not have happened advise me and save me from de- spair" you have a sad mess of your life so farl But 18 is not very old in fact twice 18 is not very old and you have time ahead fo grow wiser and build up to happiness and again out of this wreckage The first consideration now is your baby and if you don’t realize that today I can assure you that you will realize it in March when you have the little creature in your arms Since Louis la the father and Loula loves you the best first step'll to write Louia the truth That you met Jack liked Jack liked him even to the point of considering marrying him and that it was under that particular emotional stress that you wrote Loula to ask a divorce Write Husband Abaut Plans Go on to ay that everything Is changed now A new responsibility —a new prospect ha a come There And for that is going to be a child child’s sake you are never going to see Jack again you are going to live quietly planning for the baby in the spring and waiting for Loula to come home Say that you are sorry and hope he will destroy your letter and forget it remind him that you are very young and confused by the exciting conditions in which you are living in war time He will write you forgivingly Pm sure If you can possibly go to hia parents early in the new year I would do go And if you do go to the farm and it sound a comfortable place ' make them love you set yourself to winning them and to being a good wife and mother As for loving Jack you are no more sure of that than you were of loving Louis only a few months ago At 18 you are hardly sura of any emotional reaction let alone two love affairs You have plunged much too young into the realities of life and life revenges itself upon you by presenting you with Its most poignant reality that of motherhood Nothing matters now except that you fit yourself to meet this cheerfully challenge as worthily normally as you can You are making a high salary put aside somefor week your expenses thing every when the baby comes: look about you for some place where you can board and perhaps board the baby too and go on working afterward Girl Must Grew Up If Louis writes you coldly Indigaa well nant at your vaccilationa he may face that situation too In other words try to grow up and be a woman rather than a bewildered child stumbling from one mistake to another Don't say anything more about a divorce should Louis anone Instead write to grily agree him cheerful letter about yourself about hia parents and his home and eventually about the baby and let all serious decisions wait until be comes boms again Poor little certainly made precautions: 1 Rebuild all defective chimneys and see that all heating apparatus is properly installed Keep flues stoves etc clean chimneys 2 Use fire retardant roofing Where wooden possible used the danger may shingles are be reduced by the use of a sp&rk a L ' I y One of the most versatile weapons ever developed is the army’s stnrdy low slang Jeep It has spearAllied attacks In the desert plowed victory gardens for soldiers In England helped establish beachhis praise for heads In the Solomons One doughboy condensed and moved the wounded from battlefronts the Jeep by saying: ‘Ifshe could only cook!” Top Left: Stretcher cases journey to a base dressing station in New Guinea via a Jeep Center: The Jeep substitutes for a locomotive as it pulls freight during the Tunisian Motors manufacturers prove campaign Bottom Right: Experiments carried on by Willy the Jeep probably will go right on chugging away after the war on farms where it may have a peacetime headed future wherever 9 Learn how to use “first aid” fire fighting equipment effectively Different kinds of fires require dif3 Keep lightning rods in good ferent methods of attack If a fire break out in ordinary condition combustibles aim the extinguishing 4 To prevent spontaneous Ignition thoroughly cure hay pea vines stream at the bottom of the fire and other roughage Do not allow not at the smoke and flames Any horse manure to accumulate In type of approved extinguisher may large piles in stables or against be used on fires of this type but those containing water or chemicals other buildings 5 Keep farm premises clean and and water are most effective On fires in flammable liquids such neat and build of incombustible materials as far as possible Allow no as gasoline or kerosene use foam in bams or elsewhere loaded stream vaporizing liquid or smoking If the material is carbon dioxide extinguishers where combustible fire Is In a container aim at the far stored 6 Make sure all electric wiring inside wall just above the liquid level in on if the liquid spilled devices installed are properly and the nearest extinguish 7 Provide proper facilities for the ground storage and handling of gasoline and flames first then slowly advance Fired kerosene Do not use gasoline for along the path of the blaze home dry cleaning or kerosene for in electrical equipment should be fcut out with vaporizing liquid or starting fires 8 where carbon dioxide extinguishers as Keep fire extinguishers they are readily available and they contain no water to damage installations or shock the fire fighter 1 had a new Fad and I had it bad maintained according to th InstrucTwas that brave movie hero young In fighting any kind of fire maintions which all approved extinguishAlan Ladd tain a position between the fire and ers bear "Approved extinguishwasn't for long because very ers can be recognized by the Un- an exit and where fire gases will But itsoon derwriters’ Laboratories label ap- be blown away from you not I was all for Sinatra Croon Prince of on them toward you Swoon pearing Then in the order that I list their names I fell for both Dorseys and smooth Harry James I thrilled to Monroe thought him e killer Until I got hepped to records by Miller DOCUMENTS GO BY PHOTOMAIL when It urges soldiers and those Tve had many crushes —I'll have plenty with whom they correspond to save more — In using Photomail for the transvaluable cargo space by using V But I still make my dates with the boy the mail friend next door! port of its official documents Photomall can now be sent overON THE BALL— Sew ball fringe army is practicing what it preaches seas to any place where sta(the kind that mother uses on her tions are established and the army curtains) ’round and ’round an old is taking advantage of the opportubeanie starting from the top until nities thus offered to save vital it Is completely covered You will Mihave a cunning apace on its transport planes summer hat for official papers Including crofilmed your cotton frocks such bulky mail as training manuSUN KISSED— Here’s an Oldie als are being dispatched by but still good Cut your monogram s to Its many theaters of or name out of adhesive tape and the Photomail service paste it on your leg when you take through signal corps army service forces When you rip your next sun bath The principal of Photomail Is aloff the tape the letters will show up white and bright against your sunmost identical with that of v the of in skin official burnt case except that their security is safedocuments USE YOUR HEAD guarded thoroughly Flowers are the most popular Briefly the process consists of phos for teen this sumon documents arrester America In Action What ta Vy tographing Now that September is here it’s time to think about fall clothes Wool so I la scarcer than ever before hope you have cared for your things properly and won’t have any moth holes to mend will be a big favorite Corduroy this year as will velveteen and they are most flattering and attractive materials To save precious material many fall styles will feature vestees and collars of cotton These perk up a dress and it’s an ideal way to change frock to face a new season Tricky monograms add to a strictdress and ly tailored shirtwaist wfcen they are hand done they are especially attractive Ledger Syndicate— WNU Features 1600 average film Approximately length letters can be photographed on 100 feet of film each letter beThe ing reduced In size 17 times films are then dispatched by transport planes to their destinations where they are printed and distributed like regular maiL If the films art of documents of a highly confidential nature they are transported by courier Photomail and represent great advances from the original filming of mail which Is credited to the French during the seige of Paris Then it is said mail was in 1870 lb size and reduced photographed transported by the now almost obPhotomail solete carrier pigeon was developed by joint like effort of the army pictorial service of the signal corps and the army postal service of the office of the adjutant general Eleleaaed by Western Newspaper Union S American Airlines Double Those of airlines in the The network Southern Americas is now times greater than in the United States Some 44 operating companies in this vast air transport system in have 750 scheduled Latin- America to 18 air carriers compared stops in the United States’ with 260 stops Today as the United Nations' battle moves for production into remote areas of the Amazon and other places heretofore difficult of access by land or water transportation ad-- mer For real Hollywood glamour try a large cluster of flowers over each ear It does something yon Then as a from change flowers try these popnlsr tricks DISHTOWEL DARLING — All the gals are on mother’s dlshtowels wearing their beads ’kerchief fashion knotted under the chin They like to have them autographed by their friends Some girls stick their beanies on top of the dlshtowels but then some people are NEVER satisfied! ABOUT FACE— Want to have fun with a beanie? Just embroider two large eyes on it and a big smiling for in U S ditlonal routes and stops are being planned and added Total mileage of the Latin American airline network is 106828 miles or 124 per cent greater than was the U S domestic network prior to curtailment of services due to the war which was 47703 miles In schedule frequencies Mexico City leads Latin America with the largest number of 109 scheduled ar- rivals and departures per week Camaguey Cuba follows with 74 TEL is US If you will pluck In the center the your eyebrow clear space will nose look shortwill pencil in your eyebrows to nosetlp width it lengthens the nose If you will use a bit of vanishing cream mixed with face powder you will have no If you will make up your eyes you' will forget your nose — and so will others Ledger Syndicate— WNU Feature make your er If you Japs Left Food Medicine Marine Pfc Paul Conklin New Mich Lothrop returned to his home town with some stories to tell about the Japs Cleaning the Japs out of Guadalcanal was made easier by the equipment and supplies the little men left behiqd — “For in- stance” Conklin laid "we found the ground littered with Jap knapsacks or packs designed to keep a Nip going from two to three months Inside these packs we found not only the traditional and rice but cookies barley and canned meat In one pack we found medical supplies sent to the Japs by the Red Cross during an earthquake 20 years ago In another we located two shiny tins of Alaska Red salmon (canned in the U S) and together with captured bamboo shoots (they taste like asparagus) we had a dinner fit for a marine’’ E F A C T US 8th AIR FORCE vs NAZIS FIRST YEAR'S LOSSES lOMBEtSI KM NAZI LOSSES ElANES) U99 (DEEMTE) 323 (WOBA81E) RECORD ? |