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Show ON THE (HOME FRON1 1 I .n FAB: Ten-year-old hit family's J .0 CUI n- ""'..w. the Buy o H" Hi. choice . k. the 18 rvc" , k. the 18 ftl work " shown S-ft"""1",,.. u wti Ken's Jnt the colt might L lump the corra. "ln McLaughlin has a"? may not be pi"- i-wl ke tory, (OB- cbapteb: ..taild to front of her Tfen " (That was Ihertoknow.) ''And! rIsorry, you are hurt, G doesn't hurt." 2" nicer place for the ran from the corrals of pi straight north, divid- Pasture irom u iv-f iv-f path led along this t about three hundred .fL reached a flveral cottonwood trees VaB of foliage, unaw u fi trees, the path sloped d beauurui 5'"" treek was in flood, all was covered; but er, it was dry and the a vivid green the dryer land L u waj startling to the sunligni lay uyu v " Uftwasaarx ana jesnaaeu uc v..- bung over we mu u toots winding down Its j MAi.ni! fni urn. kir imaerKiuunu t mthout having to hunt & had ncn grass to eai water to drum; mere so and shade. died the place Flicka's od each morning and evented eve-nted down the little path can of oats to empty iw feed box which he L the roots of the cotton- L is tall as she could at I (he bank, i ucKa couia uer the top of it and k of Ken coming. He tar too. It made him tin- tB, toe nrsi lime ne saw -just the pretty face, with fe tang over her forehead jaty pricked ears framed anging branches of the 1 "I ll 4 T is-ana reauzea wai sne lor him and waiting for ed about it that night at at Howard said, "Nuts! b for her oats, not for fclia --answered sharply, ie bringer-of-oats, in the it gets to be the same k added drvlv. "Are hn. ks any different?" ft about it, Flicka did love As Ken stooped over to f can into the feed box, she dose beside him reaching a; but when he put out his Joke her, she pulled back, i not let him touch her. i! week or so, all Ken and I'-ad been doing with their lead them by the hal- fifte pasture, saying Whoa put the same time halt- ft and making them go is, from a slow walk risk trot when they had P enough, they took them 1 pens, removed the pand played with them, m.wai, TV a V cu around them, leaned on P fed them oats out of . (the fence from the Calf the boys worked S. Was tho r,rn- for many hours a ""other and father Poster worked with the Rumba. Blazes, Gangway. " day camo ,w .u- PHt The fn. N ato i the truck and Mc :"tothe station Wlth Saroon. i 0e bronco-buster left around the bat-"Mcked bat-"Mcked fun ..jj. fcmt . j vl Bduoies P"!. snd said mH.K. 4 him luck at the .chances.- Noli W,"8" 1 notice you're i J Wue eves !v. lnian. C.1. Wssus. it don't tfte Rodeo, but thhisfiuy... He K grinned ffttirei, 803 rattled off. s that happened alon "! FUck on the a, when suddenly she couldn't get up from the ground. It was the last day of the Rodeo The Studebaker had gone into Chey-enne Chey-enne on each of the four days of the big show, FRONTIER DAYS called by Cheyenne boosters. The Daddy of 'em All. Ken went the first day and saw Lady and Calico and Buck and Baldy In the parade, ridden by four of the City Fathers, all dressed up in ten gallon hats and fringed chaps. He saw the famous bucking horse Midnight, throw every rider that mounted him. But Ken didn't go in again, not even on this last day when there was going to be the wild horse race, and it annoyed his father; but McLaughlin said it was up to him. If he'd rather be alone on the ranch than at the Rodeo with his family, why, he could suit himself. But one thing was cer-tain, cer-tain, no one was going to stay with him not Gus or Tim either, because be-cause they'd both been promised the, day off. Gus would be back on the four o'clock bus to milk the cows, and until then Ken would be alone. Ken said he didn't mind he'd have Flicka. Ken stood by the car to see them off, and, the last thing, his father stuck his head out the window and called to him, "All right, kid-leaving you In charge! it's all yours!" And the Studebaker, carrying his i 9 The bottom strand of the fence was broken. mother and father and Howard and Gus and Tim slid down the hill, rattled rat-tled over the cattle guard and bowled smoothly down the road. Ken stood there, watching it until It disappeared. How different everything every-thing was now that they had gone. All yours ... He felt the responsibility responsi-bility his father had laid upon him . . . he was in charge. The two dogs, Kim, the collie who looked like a coyote, and Chaps, the black spaniel, were standing beside him. They too were watching the empty road. They were used to doing that, and they knew the difference the road with the Studebaker on it, going or coming, the road empty, and silence all around. Ken went up to his room and stood before his book shelf. He picked out the "Jungle Book," then ran downstairs and out, across the Green, into the Calf Pasture, and down the path by the fence to Flicka's Nursery. She was drinking drink-ing at the brook when he came. He greeted her with a stream of talk; he visited with her a while, standing as close to her as she would let him. Then he seated himself him-self on the bank of the hill under the cottonwoods and began to read. Flicka wandered around her nursery. nurs-ery. Sometimes she wanted sunshine, sun-shine, and stood under the dappled golden light until she was warmed through, then a few steps took her Into the shade of the trees. Ken, glancing up, saw her standing quite near, watching him. He began to read aloud to her, and her ears came forward sharply as if she was listening. Flicka's head turned. As Ken's voice went on, she moved over to the empty feed box, sniffed it, put out a long pink tongue and licked up a few stray grains left over from her breakfast Then she stood quietly, broadside to Ken, switching switch-ing her cream-colored tail to keep off the flies. Now and then Ken stopped reading, read-ing, put his book down and lay back on the hill with his arms under his head, looking up through the branches of the trees. He could see a patch of blue sky with a little vague half moon floating in it. the daytime moon, called the Children's Chil-dren's Moon, because it is the only moon most children ever see. At first he thought it was a little soft cloud. It was another hot day. but do. here it was pleasant and shady. There wasn't sound, except for J ripple of the stream where It "n oVer gtone, Md g In? fl'Pped out anl 8ain. and, all Uie time, a faint hum, the bumg of the racing fliel that were always In the out-of-doors. It was a sound that went with summer-part of the silence. He sighed. Well it was time to eat-he must go up to the house and get his lunch. Flicka was stiU standing up when he left. When he came back, run-mng run-mng down the path with the dogs at his heels, his eyes were fastened on the spot just over the brow of the hlU where he so often saw Flicka s face watching for him, but it wasn't there. He ran down the hill and caw that she was fiat on her side. As she heard him coming she made an effort to get up and fell back again. U stopped Ken dead in his tracks. Then he ran to her and fell on his knees beside her. "Oh, Flicka," he cried, "what is the matter, Flicka? What's happened to you?" She was dying ... she had been dying all along or, something had happened while he was away at lunch . . . perhaps she'd fallen and hurt herself again . . . perhaps her back was broken ... Hardly knowing what he was doing, do-ing, he patted her face and kissed it He went behind her, crouched down, put his arms around her head and held it. At last he went back to the bank of the hill and sat down, wishing that the afternoon would hurry by and that Gus would come. The bus would drop him at four o'clock out on the highway. It would take him a half hour to walk to the house, change into his bluejeans (he'd be all dressed up in a tight shiny blue serge suit with a ten-gallon hat and fine shoes) and be ready to milk the cows. Ken was to bring the cows in and have them waiting in the corral, and he was .to measure out the cow feed and put it in the feed boxes for the cows, so Gus would have nothing to do but drive them in and milk-them. Flicka seemed to have gone to sleep. Presently Ken lay down on the hillside and fell asleep too. A sound came into his sleep. A loud, distressed crying. It got louder loud-er and louder and then was a terrible, ter-rible, anguished bellowing, and Ken was sitting up straight, wide awake, and tense with fear. It wasn't any- thing to do with Flicka, but she too was holding her head up from the ground, listening. It was a cow bellowing. The sound came from the east, beyond the Calf Pasture. That was Crosby's Cros-by's land. It wasn't one of the Goose Bar cows then. Ken was frightened and sickened by the sound. Something awful must be happening. What? Ought he to go and find out? (You're in charge ) Maybe the mountain lion. His thoughts jumped to the Winchester . . . where was it? ... in the back of the Studebaker ... no, no, the officers had been shooting with it and afterwards his father had put all the guns back in the gun-rack in the dining room ... yes ... he could get it, could go see what was the matter . . . The boy got slowly to his feet. Should he get the Winchester first? Or go to the cow first? Would he be able to use the Winchester? It was heavy . . . perhaps better to get his own little twenty-two ... perhaps go first and see what was the matter ... Indecision paralyzed him; then suddenly he came to life, turned and ran eastward. He flew along the edge of the brook, crossed and re-crossed re-crossed wherever the footing was best. Some places the willows crowded down thick to the edge of the stream and he had to go around. The bellowing continued. Well ... anyway, if it was the wildcat it hadn't got her . . . she was making mak-ing plenty of noise ... maybe it had got her calf. Ken ran fast so he wouldn't be frightened. He saw the red hide of a Hereford cow not one of their own Guernseys. She was standing on the edge of the creek where a barbed wire fence crossed it As Ken rolled under the fence and went around to her, he couldn't see that anything was the matter then he saw, and it made him sick. The bottom strand of the wire fence was broken; some other old wires were tangled with it and the whole web of wire was wrapped around the cow's udder. Ken put his hand to the hind pocket pock-et of his overalls. He had been told by his father, "never let me catch you out without a pair of wire-cutters in your pants pocket" But the cutters weren't there. He remembered, remem-bered, clean bluejeans this morning, morn-ing, and the cutters lying on the table in his room. He headed for the cowbarn: there would be cutters cut-ters there. While he ran he was wishing that Gus would come. He wondered if he should wait for Gus to cut the cow loose-(ifs all yours .) No, he'd do it himself. It took him fifteen minutes to get back to the cow with the cutters. Then he had been running so hard, he had to kneel beside her for a tew minutes until his breath came easily and his hands were steady enough to begin work. ,TO BE COST IM tOt The Japs probably have never heard of Thunderbird field in Arizona. But it is going to be one of the greatest contributions contribu-tions to their defeat. For here a new Chinese air force is being built. Here hundreds of young Chinese flyers are learning learn-ing the latest techniques of air fighting from United States officers. Many of these young Chinese students already have had plenty of combat experience against the Japs in Southern China, where they fought cou rageously with the pitifully inadequate and outmoded equipment they had at hand. The next time the Chinese air force fights it will be with deadly, speedy little fighter planes and heavy bombers. Aided by units from the United States China hopes to oust the invader. The Chinese cadet at right is a man with a mission. His parents were in Hong Kong when it fell to the Japs and his ambition now is to knock out as many Japs as possible. , 7 n :,: Irs ; 1 MiiDs - mH'i' it.' 2 .1 Km f pzf ;r At Thunderbird field cadets wear gas masks in classrooms to make their training realistic. The Chinese front is the first area where gas has been reported used in this war. President Roosevelt issued a stern warning that we would reply in kind if our enemies used gas against our allies. v , W P) V mm iiir-aW Y A v IP ' i 1 ' Cadets receive instructions before be-fore a routine training flight. They receive lessons in English in their primary training and learn aviation terminology in both English and Chinese. This young man is mentally flying fly-ing without actually leaving the ground. He is learning instrument instru-ment flying in a link trainer which duplicates flying conditions. condi-tions. , r 77 !yw.-;' :'-." Li S3 M h i I vSshsUJt - VL mmiY.- Tr r s " . 1 , Military drill such as the contingent con-tingent of cadets above are executing exe-cuting is taught by special Chinese Chi-nese officers who accompanied them from China. The cadets are carrying full equipment. At left, cadets record greetings to their relatives which will be shipped to China and broadcast there. a rollev ball is a favorite game among the cadets. There is a physical training program ' s j with plenty of recreational fa- $2'" $ rilitif tnr thorn Washington, D. C. GOOD NEIGHBOR Many a state department official wishes we could fix up Argentina as neatly as Comrade Stalin thinks we can. When Willkie was In Moscow, Stalin raised a question about Argentina, Ar-gentina, describing it as the Axis source of information about ship movements. He couldn't understand why such a condition should be allowed al-lowed to exist "M you have so much power," Stalin told Willkie, "why don't you clean up the Argentine government, or take over the country do something some-thing to turn the Axis out of there?" Willkie found it somewhat difficult to explain that, the Good Neighbor policy would prevent such interference, interfer-ence, in time of war as in time of peace. NOTE: State department experts expect that, despite the new Argentine Argen-tine government's reactionary attitude atti-tude on domestic questions, it will be driven to break relations with the Axis, in order to get lend-lease supplies from the United States. This Is what Latin generals want most HUMANE BOMBING , Strange as it may seem, the United Unit-ed States air forces are planning the humane bombing of Germany. They want to avoid killing people and destroying non-military buildings. build-ings. They want to bring the war to a merciful ending. High ranking officers of the air forces are urging that we conduct our bombing operations in such way that unnecessary destruction of enemy life and property shall be held to a minimum. This is part ot their thesis in favor of precision, or "pin-point" bombing, as contrasted with the "area" bombing of the RAF. The precision bombing, carried on in daylight Is able to pick out the precise pre-cise military target, and destroy that without laying waste to an entire city, or killing helpless civilians. These air forces officers speak of the post-war attitude of nations toward to-ward each other, emphasizing that careless bombing would Intensify the hatreds of war, and make it more difficult to build a peaceful world. Somebody will have to rebuild the broken cities of Europe. World ties are now so close that no great areas of destruction can be allowed to re main; rebuilding will have to be done, and only the victors will have the power to do the work. Therefore, say these exponents of precision bombing, let us have no indiscriminate bombing, but only a precision job, which spares the life and property of the enemy as much as possible. CHURCIHLL THE PROPHET Students of air power have dug up an old statement of Winston Churchill's, Church-ill's, written in 1917, which reveals an amazing foresight in the possi bilities and limitations of aerial bombing. As everybody knows, the Nazi blitz against England, intended to terrorize the people, failed in its ob jective. On the ether hand, the more scientific bombing of the con tinent by the RAF and AAF strategic stra-tegic bombing is now expected to bring Hitler to bis knees. Churchill seemed to foresee both of these developments when he said in a paper on Air Power, written in 1917, that nothing we know about warfare can lead us to believe that bombing for terror alone can cause such a morale collapse as to force a major nation to sue for peace. Churchill emphasized that air power must single out and attack transportation, factories, and other enemy installations, upon which the enemy war-making ability depends England's survived of the blitz gives dramatic support to the first part of that statement and Allied air power is now proving the sec ond part INSTALLMENT BUYING Business is 'usually sauawkins about government regulation, but here is one case where merchants want it continued after the war, They want to cherish and preserve Regulation W. This is the regulation requiring heavy down payments on consumer purchases. For example, the down payment on a $200 refrigerator to day UT you could get one would ba about $60, compared with three or four dollars before the war. Wartime purpose of this regulation is to curb buying and thus reduce in flation. But retail merchants like it for other reasons. It saves them bookkeeping expenses, avoids the nuisance of dunning, and provides casn. . CAPITOL CHAFF ft Most carefully euarded turct. in all Germany are the synthetic gasoline gas-oline and synthetic oil works of Elechhammer and Bruex. If thv could be knocked out, Germany wouia oe pretty well out of the war. u. to. airmen are itching to get at them. . ft The Japanese embassy and grounas are Deing carefully cared for by the neutral Spanish cmh. ft Manpower shortage has caused suDsutuuon or women for men at tne switchboard of the FBI. YETH SPEARS "pIIESE orange crate bedside tables are useful and easy to mak; they are very decorative, too, when fitted out as musiraiea. TViBrt were lined with creen oil cloth cut, fitted -and pasted, as shown. The full skirt pieces were LINE CRATE WITH OIL CLOTH 'TACK rutc.uta SKIRT TO IDES-WHITE FRILL. tDGti COVER FORJPt tacked to the top of the sides and lapped few Inches arouna we back. A top cover with a 3-lnch frill was then added. 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