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Show THE PROGRESSIVE OPINION Maybe So Percy What would you think ol a man who was constantly deceiv-ing his wife? Flage I'd think he was a wiz ard. j Relieved Him Joe Did you get any reliel when you went to the dentist? Jim Yes. The dentist wasn't there. Knew Better Now The small boy was sitting dis-consolately on his front doorstep: "What makes you so unhappy-looking?- " asked a sympathetic neighbor. "Well," replied the boy, "if I had to do it over again I wouldn't eat up sister's lipstick even for spite." If we didn't trust one another, we'd all have to live within our incomes. Keen Competition Pretty Girl It must have taken a lot of courage to rescue me as you did. Fireman Yeh. Had to knock down three other guys who were trying to get to you first. Gems of Thought Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely. Macaulay. The game of life looks cheer-ful when one carries a treasure safe in his heart. Schiller. Vo longer forward nor behind But gratejul, take the good I find, I look in hope or fear; The best of now and here. JOHN G. WHITTIER. Her children arise up and call her blessed. Proverbs. I have heard you mentioned as a man whom everybody likes. I think life has little more to give. Samuel Johnson. PATTERNS I CIRCbEJAM FlStJoseph( ftyjj'j jJ ASPIRIN l'irllllIKIIHlD 8 LARGEST SEU.EB AT W qO" Keep Kellogg's Com Flakes handy! They're super good; nutritious and easy to serve! SAVE TIME WORK FUEl OTHER FOODSI FLAKES (Q Kellogj's Cora Fltkes r jJJ'f,. Y W I ttortd to WHOLE GRAIN Nlf- - V I TRITIVE VWIES o( Thumin I (Vitamin Bi), Niacin and Iron. .,. ,.. J ii T854 V Popular Basque. r IMMENSELY flattering frock that many a busy young woman finds' a blessing. Grand for nine to five o'clock wear and perfect for dates. Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1854-- de-signed for sizes 12, 14, 16. 18 and 20. Corresponding bust measurements 30. 32, 34, 36 and 38. Size 14 (32) requires 4 yards material. I w Neat Design. DARED down to that absolute simplicity which the new 5 cloth conservation order decrees, this dress achieves true distinc-tion! It is smart for gabardine, flannel, foulard or homespun weaves. Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1763-- is de-signed for sizes 32, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44 and 46. Size 34, short sleeves, requires 3Ye yards material. Due to an unusually large demand and current war conditions, slightly more time is required in filling orders for a few of the most popular pattern numbers. Send your order to: SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT. 149 New Montgomery Street San Francisco Calif. Enclose 20 cents in coins for each pattern desired. Pattern No Size Name Address In the Navy a floor is a "deck," doors are "bulkheads," down-stairs is "below," and a cigarette is a "Camel." At least, Camel is the favorite cigarette among Navy men, as it is among men in the Army, Marines, and Coast Guard. (Based on actual sales records from service men's stores.) 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When the batter strikes the pitcher ring, the basemen, standing in line behind the pitcher, try to grab and shoot it back to the catcher. For instance, if the ring passes the first baseman and the second baseman catches it and returns it to the plate before the runner reaches second, a one-bas- e hit is made. A home run is scored when all three basemen miss it. The diamond is also enclosed by a cable to guide the players to the bases, which are run clockwise. 'White' Elephants ' "White" elephants are reallj i flesh-colore- or reddish brown. ASK ME 7A quiz with answers offering ? Jfijj 'nfrmat'on on various subjects 5. Robert E. Lee. 6. Richard the Lion Hearted. 7. Custer made his last stand against the Sioux. 8. Galena. 9. Delaware. 1 10. The world's annual output does not exceed 1,000 pounds. Pure iron is iron whose ration of impuri-ties is 1 to 100,000, and is used only in standards work in labora-tories. ' The Questions 1. What is an erg? 2. Which of the following canals handles the greatest volume of traffic: Suez, Panama, or Sault Ste. Marie? ' " " " 3. A wind that blows regularly at fixed seasons is called what? 4. What city is called the Queen City of the Lakes? 5. What Confederate general was once the superintendent of West Point? 6. Who was the husband of Queen Berengaria? 7. Against what Indians did Cus-ter make his last stand? 8. What is the principal ore of lead? 9. Next to Rhode Island, what is the smallest of the states in area? 10. What is the world's annual output of pure iron? The Answers 1. A measure of energy. 2. Sault Ste. Marie. 3. A monsoon. 4. Buffalo, N. Y. Our Use of Paper Not only is America using vast quantities of paper in the war ef-fort, but its peacetime consump-tion has always far surpassed that of every other nation. For years before this war, the annual per-capi-use was 250 pounds in the United States, 120 pounds in Eng-land, 85 in Germany and 20 in Japan. Who's News This Week By Delos Wheeler Lovelace Consolidated Features. WNU Release. XJEW YORK. The worries that clouded the round, d face of Gen. Sir Thomas Albert Blarney last April are fading fast. al Now Depreciates from think- - Japs as Fighters ing about 200,000 Japa- nese poised on nearby islands for a jump to Australia. Now he ticks off Guadalcanal, Buna and Gona and sundry imminent captures and opines that the Nips are hardly the fighters they were cracked up to be. The general should be a first class judge of fighting men. He has been in two big wars, most-ly up where the shooting was most prolonged, and is rated a rattling good tactician. He com-manded the Australians in Greece and his handling of his battalions Is one of the few good memories of that desperate and luckless venture. To the pres-ent generation of Australian sol-diers Blarney is "Old Tom," 59 years old and a loyal supporter of our own Gen. Douglas (they-nev- er - invite - him) MacArthur, under whom he has commanded the Allied ground forces in the southwest Pacific for more than a year. When the war started Blarney re-duced his own rank so that he might lead the first division of Aussies in the field. He had been the common-wealth's Before that he was in charge of recruiting, and long before that, when the Japs were only a faint distant hiss on the horizon, he was chief of police of the state of Victoria. He married late, at 51, and has a son. In the First World war he was mentioned seven times in dispatches. In that war, as in this one, he led a mixed force of Australians and Americans. With these he helped crack the line. CINCE "Dogs are people" on the word of the club whose doings are told by Darragh Aldrich over a midwestern radio station, General Gen. 'Ike' Holds hower's Scot-U- p Captaincy of tie, Telek, This Dog of War cet& 1 " ly rates this column. Especially as he has beeD invited to be the club's commander-in-chie-with the rank of captain. Commander Harry C. Butch-er, naval aide to Eisenhower, has conveyed to Mrs. Aldrich from Africa, Scottie's thanks and his master's gratification. But, alas, General Eisenhower decrees that Telek may accept only a corporal's rank! He's been in service only since Octo-ber 14, the general's birthday. Telek was a year old on June 29, 1943. But before he reached his first birthday he was a proud father. His wife is Commander Butcher's Caacie, pronounced Khaki. It stands for "Canine Auxiliary Air Corps." Telek and Caacie have a son and a daughter now. Only satisfaction over the way the war goes over-shadowed the thrill of arrival of their family, Commander Butcher writes. Recently Telek tried to eat a scor-pion, and now his tongue has the outlines of an elm leaf. The gen-eral was away but Telek knew that under the circumstances he was en-titled to the comfort of the general's bed, and took it. During bombings Telek and Caacie and the pups go under the general's bed together. "For the general, Telek and Caacie afford opportunity for escape from war," writes Butcher. More power to them! RIO DE JANEIRO repeats her that a Brazilian over-seas force waits only a call from the United Nations, and if the call comes the Brazil's Overseas odds are Force Ready; War that the Chief May Lead It be Brazil's war minister, the seri-ous but hard-ridin- g cavalryman, Enrico Gaspar Dutra. Dutra has been Brazil's out-standing commander for almost ten years and a soldier in fact as well as in heart since he was 16. He made up his mind then, after reading limitless lives of military heroes from the deified Alexander onward. He enlisted, was graduated from the state military academy at 22 and moved up steadily to become a brigadier general after the Sao Paulo rebellion 11 years ago. Four years later he was appoint-ed minister of war. His decora-tions are numerous and include Brazil's Order of Military Merit. Unlike some good generals he is highly articulate and his lectures in the general staff school and at the military academy in Rio de Janeiro wera long remembered. He has written a number of books on mili-tary matters and .knows mechan-- ' ized warfare down to the last gas-ket and crankcase bolt. He has been a horseman almost from birth, and trained to the saddle as a boy out on the broad, cattle-covere- d plateau of the Mato Grosso. easily shifted to mech-anized But he quite cavalry when it crowded the hayburners out of warfare. The general, a major general now, Is stocky, medium tall, with graying hair and no more stern a disciplin-arian with his own men than with himself. He is up at five o clock, at work an hour later, and in bed keeps him up by ten. Only music later, and that not often. mm Wts' I ill .JiM:Ui. 1 II Released by Western Newspaper Union. UNEXPENDED WAR FUNDS MUST BE WATCHED THAT CONGRESS has fully pro-vided funds for war purposes is demonstrated by the fact that of the money appropriated for expendi-ture up to July 1 of this year, 203 billion dollars had not been used hut was still subject to the call of the administrative departments. It means the departments had in their hands a sum equivalent to an aver-age of $1,561 for each man, woman and child in the nation. That is nearly twice the amount that has actually been expended for war pur-poses during the years of 1941, '42 and '43. From July 1, 1940, to July 1, 1941, expenditures for war purposes amounted to $6,301,043,-16- For the next year, ending July 1 1942, the expenditures amounted to $26,011,065,089, and for the last year, ending July 1, 1943, the total Was $70,219,400,244. In addition to the 203 billions of unexpended balances, congress has provided well over 100 billion for war purposes for the current fiscal year, ending July 1, 1944. Senator Byrd is asking the "why" of these tremendous unexpended balances. He sees in them a dan-ger to American institutions in plac-ing so much, evidently unneeded money, in the hands of government departments. Congress could, and possibly may, recall such balances as have not been expended, or for which contracts have not been let. Congress has voted money like the proverbial drunken sailor. If it is not needed it would be well to re-lieve the taxpayers of as much of the war burden as is possible of saving. That $1,561 is quite a sum for each one of us to meet. That, plus the individual portion of the appropriations for this year, means an average of better than $2,500 for each man, woman and child, or a mortgage for each family of five of $12,500. WISHFUL THINKING WILL NOT WIN ELECTIONS WISHFUL THINKING does not win elections. Before the votes are counted the "outs" can wish them-selves in and the "ins'--' can wish themselves in again. Even at this early date wishful thinking is being indulged in by candidates for nomi-nations for every office up to that of President. Listening in at occasional small gatherings of party workers or friends of some candidate reminded me of one man who did more than wishful thinking. Some two weeks before the election in which Gov-ernor Landon was defeated for the presidency, in company with a Chi-cago acquaintance,' I paid a call on Jim Farley at Democratic head-quarters in New York. My Chicago acquaintance was for Landon, was wearing a big Landon sunflower and in a wishful thinking way was con-fident of the governor's success. Aft-er I had introduced him to the Dem-ocratic chairman he expressed that confidence in general terms. Jim Farley pulled a number of sheets of paper out of his desk, a sheet for each state, and taking them one at a time, he told my acquaintance just what would hap-pen in each state. Landon would carry two states. That Farley knew was demonstrated two weeks later when the votes were counted. He knew. I do not know the details of how he knew but Jim Farley was not a political organizer who de-pended on wishful thinking to pro-duce the results he desired. POST WAR RELIEF AND UNCLE SAM IT IS BEING PROPOSED in Washington that philanthropic Uncle Sam, representing 6 per cent of the world population, should carry the greater portion of the post war re-lief and reconstruction expense. To do so the 20 cents, or more, out of each dollar in his pay envelope, the worker is now paying as income taxes, will be heavily increased and the American standard of living must be reduced to that of Euro-pean and Asiatic nations. It all sounds very nice as expressed in idealistic words but will the Amer-ican workman stand for such a pro-gram as expressed in his dollars? That new car, to be purchased when the war ends, would be def-initely out and it would be potato or cabbage soup, instead of a beef-steak, for his dinner. America should, and will, do its share but let us be practical about the doing. SHOULD Vice President Wallace Put all the corporations out of busi-ness, as he threatens to do, who will Pay the taxes needed to operate an expensive government? WE CAN, IN TIME, pay off the war debt, large as it will be, by get-ting back to that adequate simplicity of government we enjoyed in the early years of this century. The cost in those years was well under a billion dollars a year and we had. all the government we needed or wanted. We did not have, or know the meaning of "bureaucrats." WHEN THE DOCTOR comes home from the war he will find many people have recovered from the illness they thought they had. SECRETARY ICKES tells us the American national wealth amounts to something like 14 trillion dollars. The Brookings institute, an out-standing g organization, tells us it is about 365 billion. I would prefer to take the figures of Secretary Ickes but imagine the Brookings institute is nearer the cor-rect amount. THE LOUDEST CRITICISM of the uspension of a philanthropy comes from, those who profited most from it operation. Sen5: X-- 'l IT IS WELL to have had a great deal of experience, yet it seems to do something to our youthful enthusiasm. Some people are so fond of trouble that they enjoy most eating the things that disagree with them. ' The worst mistake that you can make is the one from which you learn nothing. Some people are not contented with their lot till they occupy one in a ceme-tery. It is wisdom to always remem-ber that you're really a bit of a fool. Idle gossip is never idle for long. Maturity begins when a man realizes that he, in his amorous triumphs', really was pursued rath-er than the pursuer. Unbending oaks do not, like mushrooms, spring up over night, but grow through the years. Navy Men Can Identify Planes in Split Second The navy has just adopted a new system of training its men to rec-ognize ships and planes instantly from a glimpse of their total image, instead of by glances at their distinctive parts, says Co-llier's. The course consists of a 120-ho- study of 2,000 pictures of 168 objects from various angles on slides that are run through a projector at high speeds. To pass, a man must be able to identify a ship in one second and a plane in one 75th of a second. Fine Powders Chemists who measure, with a complex apparatus, the areas of fine powders to determine their adsorptive value have found that a cubic inch of some such parti-cles has as much as 15,000 square feet of surface. Should Kipen Tomatoes, muskmelons, berries are all better if they are allowed to ripen thoroughly on the vine. They have much better flavor, and usually are larger, when allowed to ripen be-fore they are picked. |