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Show o Per Two Thursday, April 15, THE WEEKLY REFLEX House Rejects Tax Proposals in Wild Session Grew Fence Poets Farmers who plan to grow their own fence poets in s plantation of trees may wish to set out seedlings of osage orange, the most durable post wood that grows in the north. Better even than black locust, orange posts only two or three behes through often last for 12 Concerto for years as fence supports, it is said. Ttoo-FingPosts four to five behes thick, cut Typewriter: The most 'eagerly awaited mall from the trunk of an osage orange in more than 200 Army and Navy tree, are practically indestructible, o bases from Australia to North Africa is the Treat Tool Handles copy of The the editor is Grimy Gazette Commerically treated handles on a Chicago girl named Maggie O Fla- picks, shovels, pitchworks, and herty . . . Her brother, in the army, other tools have that blonde look sometime ago sent her this plea: because they are bleached with "What we need here more than anyhydrogen peroxide. Numerous other thing are new jokes. Were telling wood products are bleached either the same ones to each other 20 by spraybg the chemical on the times! Fergoodnessakes, sis, dig up veneer to produce a surface bleach some for us! the veneer to give So Maggie started collecting them or by immersing will bleach that a permit deeper slightly risgay or pure puns. When operations. sanding laundered too were she naughty they O' them as best she could and left it ' Army Clarifies Policies os-a- Regarding Farm Labor Shoe Employment Falls Since March, 1942, three has been an S per cent decrease in the the tanning number of workers Industry and a 9 per cent decrease the number employed in tiie manufacture of shoes. semi-month- By BAUKHAGE mi News Anely it WNXJ ' Berries, Unlm Trust Building, Washington, D. C. Home on a furlough. X wonder how many of my read ert remember that very popular print of two (or maybe more) gen rations ago. Well, never mind .If you don't (though X would appreciate a letter from any who do); "home on a furlough" Is going to mean something quite different now. X remember the original picture only vaguely. I didnt know what the word furlough meant But X d know there was a blond boy In the middle of an ad miring farm family, telling his ad ventures. Today, the farm boy. with a con science, and the farm family with a farm,' are looking forward to the furlough" that will bring the boy borne for work, not the telling of his tales of adventure. It isnt going to be quite that way. The Pr esldent, when the farm bloc was riding the, administration Its hardest last month, went Into con alderable detail as to what was to be done to solve the farm labor question. Since then some concrete steps have been taken but not the ones the farmers, or some of them, would have liked. They would have liked their own sons, or their own hands, who enlisted because they simply couldnt stay "out of the show, back doing the old chores they used to do. But this Is what the army said: , "The army does not contemplate ' furloughing Individual soldiers to work on farms, the war department announced In a statement clarifying policies and procedures by which soldiers may be used to alleviate the farm labor shortage. "World War I experience demonstrated that such temporary releases of Individual soldiers were of little assistance to the agriculture Industry and disrupted the organization and training of the army. If furloughs were granted for this purpose, neither agriculture nor the army could be assured that the sol tUert thus furloughed actually would be engaged in agricultural activities. "Certain emergency situations may develop In which vital crops may be endangered because of critical shortages In local agricultural labor. In such cases, military units may be employed under command of their own officers to supplement the local farm labor until the crisis Is over. "Troops so employed will be boused and fed by the army and will be subject to military control at all tousle-heade- times. "Requests for use of military units for emergency farm duty must be transmitted to the war department by the chairman of the War Manpower commission. Another Loophole However, there is another loophole which all of the farmers or the farm men in service may not know about A soldier over 38 years of age who Is on active duty In the continental United States can get his discharge right now If he can get a statement from his local farm agent to the effect that he is needed. y . But the application has to get In by May 1. The same thing applies to men overseas and they have until June. (Better teU them by The President explained to us twice, why a batch of young men couldnt be pulled out of a division and sent home. You can take 10 or 20 soldiers out of an outfit that has Just started training and it doesnt make much difference.- - But you can't take that many men out of an outfit already trained and booked tor overseas. Not without crippling the outfit so badly that it really interferes with battle plans. Thats his explanation and he made It to us the other day, leaning back In his chair and obviously try Ing hard to get over an idea that be Delieves Is right There Is going to be a "land Be said he didnt like the army. term because it made the farmers think they were going to have a lot of green city folks descend on them. He knows what the farmers think about folks who will scare the horses, sprain their ankles, try to milk a cow and when she doesnt give, say: "The valves are stuck. BRIEFS Governor Ellis Aroall of Georgia has joined the ranks of Victory Gardeners, planning an extensive garden on the grounds of the executive mansion. .An old bam, once used to house cows, will be razed to provide additional garden space. The governor Indicated that his wife and son would be the "boss gardeners" and predicted a bumper crop of vegetables Commentator. farmer wrote me he'd rather lave grasshoppers than city folks on One his place. England ne Method The President said to us that in England they have increased food production 80 per cent And they did it with the help of a land army, mostly women with no previous training. They got the training. A lot depends on the training. , I talked with a farmer near here who took on a city boy, green as grass. The boy probably thought shorts were something you wore and probably would have looked in the toolbox for a boar. Maybe you heard him talk on the Farm and Home Hour. Well, I met him and the farmer, too. The kid Is crazy to get back this summer and the farmer, told me ' he was sick when he had to let him go back to school. City folks are dumb In a lot of ways. . But so are farmers. Its true you can lead a horse to water but you cant make him drink. Also, a lot of horses have got the sense to drink If you've got sense to lead them to the water. In spite of dumb help or none at all. In spite of lack of machines and a lot of red tape, the farmers of the country have signed up to raise a bigger crop than theyve ever raised. I believe with a little horse sense and patience, they are going to pull through. No team pulled together until they were in harness. If they don't, God help us and the army at meal time. The Weather A Dead Topic As you know, mention of the weather on the radio these days Is forbidden. The newspapers can describe a snow storm or a hot spell but the radio commentators cannot There is a good reason for this. A lurking submarine could pick up a newscast and if enough facts concerning the weather were revealed parated by tations bLCnough-Wlde- ly localities, even an amateur meteorologist and the Germans are no amateurs could make a pretty good weather forecast by putting two and two together. But being unable to describe the manifestations of nature that I see on my way to work In the morning Is a terrible handicap to me. Recently Ive gotten around the difficulty by talking about last week's weather, and before going on the air, reading what I was going to say to the censorship officials and getting their O. K. In no case did they restrict me. The other day, however, I forgot to call up the Censorship office but the Blue Network didnt forget. I got this message: "Censorship says you have to cut out all references to weather from now on. They say that there was nothing actually censorable In what you have said or what you have written today but so many complaints have come In from other stations that you were violating the regulations and so many other stations have been using your comments on the weather as an excuse tor violating the rule, that we will have to ask you to stop discussing the subject entirely." The following is what censorship didnt let me say but what It has no objection to my printing: "It was pretty hard the past week not to mention the swiftly changing scene which nature provided Washingtonians one day, not so long ago a top coat was far too heavy for comfort and In the park, the dark patches were beginning to be studded with jeweled buds and the sunlight seemed to turn into solid gold on the bursting forsythia. On that balmy day I remarked 'Well, we must be due for a blizzard.' "Twenty-fou- r hours later the fine snow began to tall and late that afternoon and the following morning, the tree limbs and trunks were wrapped In great soft blankets of down even the high branches were wide bands of white but when we went home from work In the evening. the streets were dry and clean again and only here and there In the shadow of a hedge or in the sheltering cups of the brown ivy leaves was a dust of snow-l-ike a meager sprinkling of precious sugar on the rlra of a doughnut -se- pay-as-you-- go collect-at-thc-sour- pay-as-you-- Blind Children Taught Gardening man-hour- 1 ... m actresses enlisted hes been on active duty abroad for over a year . , . Last night she was at h girl friend's apartment playing with a foursome of gals . . . When she left the room to answer the phone, one of the girls observed: "Hasnt she the : loveliest figure? Amazing how shes kept It so trim since he left. "And why not?" said Tallulah. "Nobody's been able to make an appointment with her for over a year except Elizabeth Arden!" gin-rum- Eat Apples Unpeeled Eat your apples whole and un- peeled for more vitamin C, or serve them sliced b the followbg salad combinations: Cabbage and red apple; cottage cheese, nuts, and red apple; alternate slices of oranges or grapefruit and red apple; banana, grapes, and apple; carrot, celery, nuts, and apple; or chicken, celery, and applet o - b b Sacks for Clip An adequate supply of burlap and paper sacks for handling the 1948 wool clip is expected. Paper twine should he used for tying fleeces. Keep Shoes Fit Give every pair of shoes the best good possible care. Keep them repair. Keep them clean and polished. Treat them carefully after slush or rain a soaking dry them slowly, rob them with a rough towel so the leather does not stiffen np, and polish them to replace the oil which has been lost. b b b Oil Dip Chains To prevent damage and wear to chain drives on farm machines, dip a container of ofl inths chains of stead squirting them with a few drops from an oil can. o . Sails From Leaves Sails, mads from leaves, propel the swift outrigger canoes of one group of Solomon Islanders. b OOOOOOOOOOOCCOOOOOOOOOOOt Cold Seasons To Clean Windows Wbdows are best cleaned by the dry method in cold weather. Finely powdered whiting mixed to a thick paste "with water or alcohol and a thin rubbed over the glass OFFICE EQUIPMENT layer will dry before it can freezo and may be rubbed off with a soft WI Birr AND BELL Offlc Penritn cloth or paper. . Soft PUm. TjewtlUc. ASdinv Mariii $Qa00tlSG b Packages As many factories now make packages for war supplies instead of for food, and since steel for of nails and wire is scarce, burbaskets, crates, boxes, barrels, lap and cotton sacks is urged, to prevent a widespread shortage of food packages. Re-U- se re-u- SI SALT LAKE DESK EXCHANGE Biaalwiy, Salt Laka City. tUk Wt LENSES DUPLICATED se THE OPTICAL SHOP BUi, Salt Laka City duplicated. Wholaaala pries. aarrlea. . Mail ia broken piseaa. S14 Baataa Inna USED CARS TRAILERS USED CABS TRAILER COACHES , Earth Moves Liberal Cradlt Terms Irregularly JESSE M. CHASE The earth appears to be someSail Trsda Buy what inregular b its movements. STORES IN en88 an seconds late for It was OGDEN. PROVO. SALT LAEE OTT, Billy Bryant, the famed Showboat gagement b 1940. This discovery POCATELLO. BOISE, BLACKFOOT man, was in a Broadway producers was made as a result of observaCombining a patriotic duty with healthful exercise and occupation office where a group were panning tions on the transit of Mercury FOR SALE POULTRY for blind children, the New York Institute for the Education of the a dramatic critic, whose review that across the face of the sun. is converting most of the U acres of flower beds which adorned the cam- morning lambasted their new play WHITE LEGHORN SPECIALISTS M pus of the school Into a victory garden. Here we see the youngsters at . . . The producer sent the critic year productloa o t superior ehleka, Dont Overheat Iron A 100 pure top (train. Ord work la the future garden. They work in roped-ef- f lanes to prevent hurt- a telegram which said: "You are an electric iron straight ran. pulletranking or oockerel Overheating each with other 2c the ing Writs tee foldar, prieaa and aarly open selling your comedy at per copy!" wastes garden tools. electricity, damages the To which the reviewer replied: hazard. fire a and creates element Crmkaa Hatchary sad Pallet Pans "And you are selling your 2c Dropping an ipon may break the Hayward California thermostat or throw, it out of adVrir'HH3fil That recalls the time George Ber- justment. OLD COINS o nard Shaw tried to sell a dated I buy an CENTS. Com. Impossible! Europe at Peace manuscript to a weekly magazine, TESTER, Bos SOU, filem satalogaa 10a. to believed Prehistoric is Europe which rejected it with this note: Our editors see no reason why it have been virtually at peace for 600 years before 1200 B. C, about should be published by us." ARE YOU AFFLICTED? . 4 time that iron weapons were the h't- Shaw "Am answered: ' forwarding V ARE TOU AFFLICTED? btroduced. a copy in Braille. .,5- - ... . Peaceful .Meal in African War Zone INDIAN-HEA- -- D V V If v. vC, v ' 'T Earle Stanley Gardner, the mystery master, was discussing the ; v "? .'v VC iZ s c J,' ' A. - 1 I ;. .'. ' . f- t . :- - cooking in New Orleans. He bemoaned the fact that the cuisine there was so good and the variety of rich dishes so tempting, that on his last visit he nearly ate himself to death . . . "Then you dont like New Orleans? asked his listener . "Like it!" he ejaculated. I love it. It's Gouts own country! 7 .r The editors of the Mirror consider this one of their favorite war gags: A Berlin worker asked a bank clerk how to invest his life savings of 1,000 marks . . . Buy Stite bonds," he was advised . . . "But, he butted. "supposing the State goes broke?" . . "You forget the Nazi Party will see that It doesnt!" . . , "But, persisted the man, "supposing the Nazi Party collapses?" . . . "Well, was the answer, "isnt that worth 1,000 marks?" v r i'J ?' ;"r, I f N r u i V. ' ' 3A.' 7k ? V, . '( Note of an '' ' Innocent Bystander: V - V X ajl Axis nuiwuiee raids in North Africa are so frequent that the pilots and ground crewmen of this advanced U. 8. bomber base In Algeria find it much more comfortable to have their meals in slit trenches, where they can go right on eating while the Jerries or Eyties are having their fun. This base is near the Tunisian border. General Patch Decorated in Guadalcanal . v. b - I':' ' a ' ' r a 'V v The Intelligentsia: The March of Time editors edited out the last two stanzas of the ditty, "Stalin Wasnt Stallin" (rendered by, the Golden Gate Quartet), which have to do with the American Eagle and British Bulldog helping the Russian Begr . . . Tom OConnors deft piece in PM. which castigated E. Jamdl Smythe, the Bund and Elan supporter, was the week's tops in lowdown reporting Roger Butterfield of Life says the piece on A1 Schmid, the marine hero, couldnt have been done saps the help of the Philadelphia reporters who dug it up originally . . , Time has its own intellistategence bureau ments and background on stories and people, which are distributed for the personal observation of Time editors only . . . Quentin Reynolds probably is in Russia, having flown there longer than a fortnight ago 83 newspapers suspended publication in 1941 Clouds Cover Planet The planet Saturn is enveloped a heavy, impenetrable layer of clouds, approximately 16,000 miles thick. b you hare lirar, stomach, kidney, prostata gland. Itching piles, rheumatism, arthritis, rariooM wins, or sinus trouble, see as, or writ for nartieulara and testimonies NATURE'S MINERALS COMPANY, dll. Z6th Street, Ogden. Utah. PIANOS and ACCORDIANS PIANOS and ACCORDIANS WANTED Rate Expensive Boarders Xt pays the farmer to get rid of excess population today: the rats that eost about $2 each for their room and board for a year. Writs Today MUSIC CO. IT W. 1st Saath Street. Salt Lake STTKMERHATS Measures Color An Instrument known as a photoelectric tristimulus colorimeter, or "an artificial eye for color measuring, has been developed. Ants Have Strong Jaws Ants are considered to have the most powerful jaw grip of any animal. Tested Blood Pressure Blood pressure was first meas1733 by the Rev. Dr. ured Stephen Hales. b . White Fawn Flour Leads Them All . v Cut Comics Two Madison, Wis daily newspapers have abolished their Sunday comie sections order to save paper. b Ask your Friendly Qroeer Week Ns. WJC.U. dill SALT LAKE WANTED!! .... RABBIT SKINS , Domestic and Wild FOR HIGHEST PRICES AND A SQUARE DEAL Ship to NORTHWESTERN HIDE & FUR CO. 463 Sooth 3rd West Salt Las City, Utah ... H Cotton fabrics for women's work clothing have been cut from 14 types to five. Government purchase orders, specifying that.canners pack fruits, vegetables and juices in large No. 10 size cans, instead of smaller ones, may save as much as 67,000 tons of steel, 1,000 tons of tin. 43 tons of rubber and 6,600,000 s of cannery labor in 1043." ts She is one of the lovelier . . . Her young actor-grooon that December 7th and i by Bauhhage ... to the boys to decode them Into unexpurgated literature. are friends who Her travel in parlor cars, and her girl friends bring those they hear in beauty parlors and cafes . . . Twice a month Maggie puts them in the malls for all over the fighting fronts . . One compliment came from Capt. Tom Griffin in N. Africa. He said: "Thanks for the Gazettes. Laughs are few and far between out A Camp Polk, La., Sgt. here wrote that her Gazettes solved the problem of getting the men to read the bulletin boards. Oh, yes. Maggie OFlaherty has a regular occupation. She writes radio shows for kiddies. gag-scou- The house of representatives climaxes a fiery sessionary refusing to accept the Rend plan to forgive tea billion on 1M2 income taxes to put taxpayers on a basis, as well as the administrations tax bill which would have started collecting 28 per cent from paychecks on July 1. The ways and means committee was ordered to bring out a new bill that would help put the nations income taxpayers a a basis. In this photo, made after the votes had been counted. Representative Robert I Doughton of North Carolina, supporter of the administration tax plan, and its leader, is congratulated by Representative Frank Carlson of Kansas, leader of the Rum forces, who had embodied its proposals in his plan. ly b ge er Military Units May Be Employed on Crops During Emergency Situations; Individual Furloughs Not Contemplated. 194$ These who plan giving parties In their homes for servicemen might follow the policy of the Stage Door Canteen in New York. The Canteen workers have learned the songs the servicemen, do not want to hear. They include: "Miss You." Dear Mom." "We Did It Before," "Remember Pearl Harbor. "White Cliffs of Dover, "Let-te- r From Home," "God Bless America," "This Is Worth Fighting For and "My Buddy. AH of them. It is explained, "are depressives. ATTENTION! Livestock Gr Raisers COLORADO ANIMAL CO. "A Utah CerpmeHa- Wtth pi anti conveniently located CITY-IIEB- CITY-LOGA- EB -- Vice Admiral Aubrey W. Fitch (right) is shown as he pinned the Navy Distinguished Service Medal on MaJ. Gen. Alexander 1. Fateh, in command of U. S. troops at Guadalcanal, shortly after the army relieved the marines here. Looking on are Brig. Gen. R. L. Spragins, corps chief f staff, and Brig, Gen. William R. Woodward, artillery chief. Farmers el a- OGDEN SPANISH N - FOEK-CAKLAN- BALT LAKE D. And Its IDAHO B3DB A TALLOW COu Twki Fate. Uaks IDAHO FiLLS AVTAAL Uaha Faita, idaLoaN'Mal rmcisvdr tote SHU? 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