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Show UINTAH BA.SIN RECORD Period In U. S. to Be an Age of Wonders Post-Wa- r Kathleen Norris Says: IMbd Phillipr Change of Environment Works Hardship After War Years Will See Astonishing Changes in WNU Bell Syndicate 7 Feature. -- THE COMPLETE WEATHER BUREAU SERVICE Ways of Living. (Weather bureaus in New York and many cities are supplementing weather information by issuing warnings, some in rime, against shortening the life of tires by fast driving on hot roads. How about going in for the idea in a big way to boost all drives?) Subscriber: Mr. and Mrs. Average American of the post-wera probably will find themselves living in a world full of comGreeks forts, conveniences and gadGervasi Frank By gets that at a present day View have a decidedly Jules HU Feature Through special arrange-- I Verne flavor. meat with Colliers Weekly.) monof a They may own a home II Greece, "Xing George h temporarily out of a country that was erected from the ' not out of a job, recently visit-th- ground up in eight hours and United States. Something of is just as stable as one which debt which the United Nations before the war required six people his tough, to build. The home months his visit, i told during ar Our Friends The y! I .uiunnltiiiuiilllllini e liberty-lovin- g f all the little nations of beared Europe that lay in the path Axis domination of the doomed tinent, only Greece, after Poland, ;d democracy so well as to fight it vigorously enough to call what i.; ripened a war. it was J J'H wasnt war in Holland; rder. It wasnt war in Belgium; yas a skirmish. In Poland, des-,athough the resistance of the ,;v;.;Tes had been, the German 'gn proved an enormous exercise tactics. Only the Greeks a war for it. All took their toll of the enemy. even I land, Belgium, Poland cost the Germans and refore the Axis many men and ch equipment. But until Russia red the war, no foe inflicted h punishment on the Axis as the Ffjeks did upon the Italians, and with the help of the British, ggpr, HiilSn the Germans. witijf.rou cant put a calipers on what sece did for the cause of democ Jitiiy and measure it accurately. The r isnt over yet. But it might re been over, had it not been for Greeks. Street there were Quislings in the Greek is for jemment King George knew i. He said so, courageously, at abinet meeting held in the last of Athens, just before the stika was raised on the Acropolis. - .. mier Korizis went out and shot . "; te j c-w- will have conveniences undreamed of even for comfort-lovin- g Americans. They probably will drive a modestly priced automobile that runs 35 miles on a gallon of gasoline and will negotiate terrain and hills formerly suitable only for the d mountain goat. If they live on a farm they probably will have an amazing vehicle that can be used to plough, harrow, milk and round up the cows. When vacation time comes around they may fly over to Cairo or down to Buenos Aires for the week-enOr they may even make an trip during the head of the familys traditional two weeks off with pay. These are not fancies conjured from a Lewis Carroll (who authored time-honore- d. around-the-wor- ld Alice In Wonderland) imagination. They are practical potentialities which industrial experts already are forecasting as the logical peacetime application of armament de- Hello, which has been developed for military planes some of which fly in excess of 500 miles an hour will be capable of carrying a 625 pound load. That a peacetime version of this vehicle which can climb grades that balk a tank and negotiate rough terrain at 40 miles an hour should be developed is, of course, logical and the American farmer will thus inherit one of the nations most valuable pieces of military equipment These automotive principles of engines which consume a minimum of fuel also will be applied to pleasure vehicles, automobile designers predict, forecasting a light yet powerful car which will require only about one gallon of gasoline every 35 or 40 miles, pn the Sea, Too. On the sea also the war effort is providing amazing new inventions applicable to the countrys peacetime pattern of living. The United States has experimented with an allaluminum destroyer which they believe will cut through the water at 52 knots an hour. continents and their place cities within a comparatively few days or few hours flying distance of the United States. Flying freight trains probably will become the order of the skies. The Increasing public interest in aviation, the training of thousands of young men as expert pilots and the strides made by safety in aviation also presage p new era of private flying. Ten years, even five years from now, plane-rentand services probably will be too commonplace to be news. When priorities are no longer necessary, stall proof, spin - proof planes such as the Ercoupe and Skyfarere (notable for folding wing features) probably will travel side by side with automobiles along the highways as they shuttle from air field to Seacraft designers declare that the garage. use of aluminum in boat construcAs C. R. Smith, former president tion may well be the forerunner of of American Airlines, recently dehigh speed passenger transport ships period, non- - faster than anything previously clared, In the post-wa- r dreamed of. Row and sail boats so n boy can carlight that a Toward a New Era one across country, and fleet ry Even as the nation devotes pleasure craft that will rival in wathe full energies of its industrial ter the speed of their automotive vicpower and scientific genius to cousins on land, undoubtedly will tory, its citizens can still lift make their appearance in the posttheir eyes above and beyond the war era at prices within reach of holocaust of world war to an era the American in the smaller income that will bring with it a new patbracket tern of living at once finer and house Describing the post-wmore dramatic in its benefits than which Americans may be occuanything civilization has known Norten from far-flun- g d al Willys-Overlan- 125-to- n A m 160-to- n N;st belly-flop-pe- Willys-Overlan- -- i3e i 7 '?' ft; pAhtk ' -- y as i nPt New Heights of Ilealth for far-flun- g well-bein- g half-grow- Operator: Kindly state your number, please; are your priorities? Subscriber: Give me the weather bureau man; Be as thrifty as you can. Operator: I am ringing; How hold the line . . . Saving gas and oil is fine. Weather Man: This is Just what can do for you? Any query will suffice Well throw in some good advice. Subscriber: I am calling up to see What the weathers gonna be: Buy yourself some war bonds now Help to make the Axis bow! Weather Man: Kindly speak a little louder (Alcohol makes smokeless powder) ; Speak directly in the phone And cut your budget to the bone. Central: Kindly drop another nickel; Travel more, sir, by bicycle! Subscriber: Theres the nickel in the slot; How much old rubber have you got? Weather Man: Now 1 hear you some- what years You can buy war bonds now, man Bel Geddes, who designed the Futurama at the New York Worlds Fair, pictures a prefabricated house which a crew of six men could erect in one eight-hoday. With such a house a family might well eat dinner in a home that had been bo more than a pile of materials the same morning. We have all the techniques and facilities to build houses such as I have described, says Mr. Bel Geddes. Today, we have an opportunity to change over from and costly methods to the modern mass production way of building better homes at lower cost. He estimates that at least 2,500,000 new housing units will be required after the war. Still another noted American architect, Walter Dorwin Teague, declares that we have only to apply g to tlje same techniques of design, manufacture and selling that have provided one motor car for every four people in the United States to produce a type of home which will be within reach of the man in the very low income bracket Mr. Teague has designed a house to sell for $1,000 to $2,000 which can be rearranged, even when occupied, as to size and floor plan almost as easily as one changes the furniture in a room. The Teague house not only can be enlarged or reduced in size at the owner's will but also can be moved from one building site to another. by letter; What Is it youd like to know? Gas and oil supplies are low. Subscriber: Im just calling up to see What the weathers gonna be. Weather Man: Theres lew pressure in the west; Driving slow is always best; There were showers In the night; Treat a rubber tire right! Subscriber: I am listening . , . Proceed! You are giving service, keed! Weather Man: Morning mists will clear away (Turn In those old blades to- day); It should be quite warm by noon (nelp that scrap drive pretty soon) home-buildin- d Such a house, he says, will compare with present day houses as a modern automobile factory-fabricate- bugcompares with an gy. If the owner of such a house discovers that his job necessitates a move across the continent he will simply take the house down, call a truck and have the house transported to his new place of residence. If after six or eight years he wants a new house he will trade in his old one just as he does his automobile. Still another architect who has been studying post-wa- r housing problems, William Hamby, urges that For better living the post-wa- r home must be improved for the one who has the most to do the woman. In a house planned to take the Mr. drudgery out of housekeeping, Hamby abolishes the usual kitchen and substitutes a streamlined and beautified unit so planned that while the homemaker gets dinner she can also participate In the familys activities. Citizens After War quired knowledge of how and whal to eat In the light of these new benefits and luxuries which await only the end of the world struggle to become realities it is logical to look also into the economic horizons of the post- war period to discover what likelihood there is that the average American family will be economically able to enjoy this new pattern of life already looming on peacetime horizons. bet- ter; ar pying central, how are you? Do you take one lump or two? 008-pou- JJnia two-fol- r This new design of Glenn L. Martin companys proposed 250, flying ship is a preview of what ail will be seeing as It roars across the skies after the war is won. Such planes as these today could haul regiments from coast to coast In a days time. velopments. War is a forceful spur to the progress of industrial science and invention. Under its duress there is no time for the cautiously slow experiments which mark the reception accorded new inventions and discoveries in years of peace. New methods, new materials are accepted overnight and are tested in the acid furnaces of combat. The tragedy of modem warfare is an anachronism of progress. iself. Distance Annihilated. before. ike Lexington and Concord There is no better illustration of ut the Greek, people the goat this than the advancement made by over the ocean will Idejgs and the tobacco farmers, aviation as a result of World War I. stop operation be prosaic with most of the crosswine growers and the tenders of The airplane represented new poe groves, the factory workers tentialities of speed and destruction ing to Europe done at high altitude the keepers of wine shops the and as such was seized upon as a speeds in excess of 300 miles per mon people of Greece had no weapon of offense by the Allies and houf." d to do business with Mussolini their enemies alike. In the short pe- Miracle Car Forecast for Farm Use. Itler. The night the Italians riod of four years aviation made an As in aviation so in the world of -- cherously descended upon Grece advance that would have required automotive progress the developIL la their base in a quarter of a century in normal ments of war will become integrated 1940 those October 28, into Americas peacetime pattern of times. pie filled the village squares and life a few years hence. Today, the same situation magnistreets with their clamor: fied ten times over obtains. Only In recent tests conducted by the "j( twn with Fascism! recently, Glenn Martin, the noted United States department of agri. was to have been a victorious aircraft designer, announced plans culture and d Motors, e,ch to Athens for the Italians. for a behemoth of the air Inc., makers and manufacturers of P;solinis choice of the date the standard design Jeep, at Auburn, 50,000 capable of transporting --L ober 28 anniversary of his Pull-pounds of equipment at speeds of Ala., and Toledo, Ohio, the vehicle march on Rome indicat- - 200 to 230 miles an hour to be built gave promise of performing with that. after the war. This plane, said Mr. the same versatility on the farm as VIetaxas Seizes Opportunity. it presently is doing on the battleMartin, will be "as big as a fields of Europe and the Far East. another house. Meanwhile, compa,'etaxas, Greek premier, heard cries of the people. He was as ny is reported to have already comDuring these tests the car did evswd a politician as he was an pleted the wooden dummy of a ship erything from cultipacking and hargeneral, perhaps one of the that will dwarf the Martin monster rowing a field in one operation, usmodel which could move ing 2.12 gallons of gas per acre, to a officers of our times. He seized the opportunity of whole battalions across the contihauling almost a ton and a half of nent overnight. farm produce a distance of 13 miles 'Vstg down in history as a paladin Already in use are new methods on a gallon of gasoline. democracy rather than a dictator, of construction which lighten airchose to fight Already known as the armys nd what was to have been another craft by hundreds of pounds and so miracle car, the Jeep is the detremendously increase their passen- scendant of a motor driven platform y victory for Mussolinis r, on wheels known as the those veterans of one-i- d ger and freight carrying ability. Natwhich was first demonstratbattles against unarmed na-s- s urally, these planes are at present ed at Fort Benning, Ga., in 1940. At in Ethiopia and barehanded only in military form. the request of army officials Joseph When Peace Comes. publicans in Spain, turned into a d .as trophic defeat However, when peace comes these W. Frazer, president of the Tascism fed on glory. There was company, and other autoGoliaths of the clouds will be infor Fascist arms in Greece, terpreted in terms of pleasure and motive experts undertook the design naof a car which would not exceed seism, gorged on victory, had met convenience for a travel-lovin- g tly defeat in Greece, tion. The almost unbelievable speed 1,400 pounds in weight and should dawned on even the staunchest ck Shirts with the Greek debacle t Mussolini was very definitely I always right. Ihe decline of the Second Roman I pire, that may meet its end one soon on the sands of Libya, be- in Greece because Greeks loved Ss edom well enough to fight for it. I What Greeks Accomplished. "Something more the Greeks ac- 9 xU hphshed. Italys mission in the 3rV!.5 's, MTV s strategy in the Mediterranean ion was to have been tut, Fascists were to have marched V ) "'Athens and thereby intimidated S rt oslavia, where the treacherous ' r J. Vadinovitch had prepared the ain for an Axis coup, into the v Order lineup. Turkey, which ,'M ; S J.'5 - r the time leaned far toward Ber-w. ! . V'. ... e .... .v to have been won over by Fascist triumph, and the Fas-- a This Is a modern version of beating swords into ploughshares: conwere also to have conquered verting the armys miracle car, the Jeep, Into an agricultural vehicle or many nses. Who knows, but that some future day Old Bossy, down In jtler attacked the Soviet Union the south pasture, will be herded by means of such a Jeep? st0,June 22, 1941. But Greek resist-- e in the Balkans, which inspired U. S. ellion in Jugoslavia and further It nated and becomes harmless. From out of the many efforts to lcC4plicated matters for the Nazis, above and beyond disthe However, in nations conditions yl given Russia another seven Improve as a coveries of this type there is the plants manufacturing great tlDtiths' preparation. war measure has emerged a cure even broader aspect of a new high genloreover, Hitler was caught on for one of the most dreaded of all level of health which post-wa- r an d Russian plains by winter, erations undoubtedly will enjoy bediseases silicosis. his timetable was thrown off cause of the program of Science has discovered that education in nutrition now under by the Balkan campaign, aluminum dust bas an affinity way as a part of the war effort '.litlerism, some believe, may die for silica and that blown into the Probably for the first time in the 3rRussia. But if oo, it received the air It coats the microscopic parrtal wound in the Balkans at the history of any nation, Americans ticles of silica so that .when the ids of the Greeks. will reach new heights of health and latter Is Inhaled into the lungs because of this newly ac iSf its poisonous effects are elimi- ' rwii til f mi ! Subscriber: Whata the outlook, hot or cold? Come across with rubber, old. Weather Man: Temperatures are due to soar; Help your country win this war! It may get to 9- 3Save your tin cans carefully! If it gets to 98 Walk, dont ride, to keep that date! Theres a heat wave heading In; Driving swiftly is a sin; Record heat may be at hand; Hard on tires, understand? Subscriber": This is service most complete; Rubber melts in too much heat Weather Man: For tomorrow, little change; For less driving, please arrange; Showers will bring no relief; Hot roads bring & tire grief. Subscriber: Thanks for all the song and dance . . . Take those cuffs right off your pants! AN IDEA! There goes the curse of the army, said Lieutenant General Somervell as thousands of rubber stamps were tossed into a collection of old rubber. Which makes one realize that somebody missed a bet when they failed to emphasize rubber stamps in the rubber drive. Rubber stamps are not only the curse of the army, they are the curse of the country. How about a last minute appeal to America to throw its rubber stamps into the war on the Axis? Nothing could be better spared. The Du Ponts have taken out a patent under which they claim it is possible to stamp womens hats and clothes out of a new fabric. No needles, no sewing machines, no thread, no seams, no ridges. Imagine a woman saying, I'm going down to the machine shop and get me a new frock. Buy War Bonds Or remarking, somewhat exaiperateil, like this new spring hat Im going to take it in and have it r stamped." I don't Kit had cried becausa nobody at the new school kneto it tout her birthday. Then a girl called and took Kit to a club where she found a heap of gifts end twelve girls singing a birthday song. By KATHLEEN NORRIS many another woman Isabel Moore has been torn from her moorings this year, and finds herself in a strange environment. Her husband was transferred to Philadelphia, a city which she had never even visited before; his working hours on a defense job are erratic. He may be home for dinner three nights in succession, then away five, then home again long enough to make the family feel that things are settling down to normal, and then self is only an acute form of homesuddenly off to Montreal or sickness; a bitter longing for the Atlanta at a moments notice. old faces, tlie old voices, the dear CE The Moores have two daughters, and 16, and a son, 11. The son isnt much of a problem because he has slipped comfortably enough into a routine of school, Scouts, movies, and seems not to have noticed the change. But with Jean and Ann It is a different story. Perhaps it wont seem a tragedy to you, in this year of war tragedies, writes Isabel, but It is a very real blow to my girls. I realize now that they are just the wrong age to transplant. Older girls would be more resourceful; young children would adapt themselves more easily, as Junior has. 19 But the girls are desperately homesick; they miss their old friends, the crowd that used to have so much fun, the dances, theatricals, and they beg picnics, week-endTom and me to send them back to their aunt In Austin and let them board there. Feel Uprooted. Jean has graduated from high school and had planned a college career; Ann is still in school, but is the shy, quiet member of my three, and is afraid she will never feel at home in these eastern We will not send them schools. away, but Jean could go to college right here If she wanted to, but she doesnt. She says not knowing any of the girls and boys, would make It an agony to her. Both girls are pretty, and have always been popular, the letter goes on, and I cant blame them for feeling uprooted. For myself I feel something of the same forelorn-nesTom is always busy and absorbed, and I have had too much to do getting settled to look about for club interests or neighbors. We have a nice apartment in a house with a strip of garden, and we plan little expeditions of a week or ten days when the weather gets hot. But we all want friends; tell me how you think we might go about getting hold of them? Tom will be here for the duration, and I wont leave Tom. Neither will I permit girls of these ages to leave homo, even to stay with an aunt. Dont tell me that I am weak to call this a problem when there are so many more serious ones just now, but tell me what to do. I dont think its at all a trifling matter, Isabel, nor will I classify yon as weak for finding It s very anxious question. But the cure, fortunately, is one (hat conies Inevitably, and it will come U you surprisingly fast, Tws attractive girls with an attractive mother and a nice borne never go begging long for companionship; it Is for you only to be somewhat selective la the making of new friends. A Trying Time. Weve sll had these agonies, perhaps the mos? poignant the human bvart can suffer. Loss by death it s, s. old ways. It seems to Jean and Ann today that they never will replace the lost associations; but they will, and a year from now they will be innocently wondering how they could ever have feared that life would never be satisfying again. When you do leave for short holidays, go where nice young people go. This is one infallible way of making acquaintances. Boys will dance with Jean, girls will shyly make overtures of friendship to Ann, and before you know it you will be meeting mothers, discussing school- ing, and sharing plans for the au- tumn. When you get this far, your next step is a hard one, but I think it is perhaps the most important duty that falls to a father and mother. I mean the duty of drawing a little circle of associates about your girls, knowing something about every one of the young men, and sacrificing not only your own time and comfort, but your own pride, in a sense, until you get things started. By pride I mean that you must take the hurts that youth quite unconsciously will indict upon you and your plans. Mother, his owq house is just palatial! Jean will say, when you speak of asking the nice Robinson boy over to spend an evening with you. Mother, all my friends go to the movies and they all exAnn will pect to go to the movies! wail at the suggestion of chocolate shakes, cookies and games at home. Suggests Games. But persevere. Ask a few youngsters to come in to celebrate oh, anythingl Jeans birthday. Admission day, Fourth of July. Have pencils, scratch pads and suggestions ready. No matter how awkward they are in starting, games will break the ice, and when you slip away to see to the refreshments, they will be carrying on at a great rate, on their own. Make up your mind that at the first attempt you probably will draw seven girls and two boys; that at the last moment the boy Jean especially likes will telephone that he cold and that his mother has doesnt want him to come, and resign yourself to the fact that (a) Jean wont want Ann anywhere In sight, (b) Ann will be raging, and (c) not until a successful party is over will you get the slightest cooperation or enthusiasm from Jean. This is part of a mothers job. If you can get only three friends to come in, get three. Next time there will be nine, and the time after that the youngsters will form a hiking, dramatic and dance club and Jean's social start will be fairly launched. With Ana it should be easier, for she is young enough to want girl rather than boy friends, and the friends the makes in school surely are going to dancing classes on Friday nights, and in no time at ail she will bavo ail the datca the can keen. |
