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Show I.. ;' fir ( l!'7 i . ; : v 1 f,,..2-M, i A . f . . . ... N o 1 Ar ft 7 rPROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, Editor xak .... : MowersHeroes Ail .from the Totomac river cm .Route 60 the $A Northwestern tunxpike--the casual mo torist comes upon m chertsnea American landmark. Far to the south across jt loiiely Allegheny mountain valley is a rane of hills which dip sharply ; at one point to form a saddle." The view, particularly in May, is '". breath-taking ' TK mail. rustic aien at the side of the ,V roadway alnfost escapes one's eye. It is in- scribed: , ' . "Over &e mountain, beyond the saddle, lived Nancy Hanks-Smother of Lincoln. Thewodest inv all of the quality of the woman, stirs someinmg approaching awe within the being of those who pause on the brink of that valley. r "Nancy Hanksmother of Ye: bevond that far mountain lived the girl who was to become mother to the great-all great-all American! . the American who most personifies our heritage of equal opportunity; op-portunity; democracy and freedom. The diminutive marker is a monument v'which stirs within us a recollection of the greatest of all our mothers. What man does hot hope that some day a sign misnt read, perhaps: "Here lived Mary Brown mother of Jon'or 'Smith' or 'Johnson?' Mothers inspire much of the ambition which leads men to accomplishment. Every man wants his mother to be highly regarded. Wheh nis own success leads to that recognition, recogni-tion, his pride knows no bounds. Our mothers earn every bit of the homage hom-age they receive and that homage is far less than it should be. Consider our war mothers. Millions of American mothers thousands of them in ' our own community today' carry a heartrending heart-rending burden, worry and fear for the safe-' safe-' ty of sons servini in our country's armed services. Few men, even on the battlef ronts, undergo, the strain which is their mowers lot as a result of the world holocaust. Let us with wide anft joy be thankful to day Mother's Day for the have made America grea mothers of all of us. 11' LJ . ' 'Art and War ". Army men and civilian experts have been working since last summer on identifications and maps of artistic monuments in Europe that may stand in the path of the Allied advance. ad-vance. Now it is reported that an Army mission is ready to go overseas where the result of this painstaking research will be put into practice. The information is destined for all concerned, con-cerned, from the officers who plan bombings and barrages to the foot soldiers who may have to fight in the vicinity of these monu-l monu-l ments. It is a tribute to 'the: civilized conscience of our military leaders that this task was un- Atrt a Von olnncr xelth other ' unprecedented importance It is also an indication that lrill be taken to avoid destruction sucn as " ias already taken place in the Italian.' cam- paign. ,f)f course, no deviation policy on these matters would be contemplated contem-plated or tolerated. No Allied soldiers' lives . will be sacrificed for any structure used -by the enemy for military purposes. But it can be questbned mbin of the Monte Cafesino m ! a stancei Was 01 enougn mniiary rniporiance to offset the stir itcaused in the Catholic rld7Naturally,the destruction was not wanton tovmalicious. But the Nazis are back again in the now-ruined monastery that stands whereNme Benedictine Order was established. es-tablished. Tacticians willno doubt take this experience Jto account if comparable situations situa-tions should develop in the future. The Germans are hot moved by any compunction com-punction in the use of these monuments Jor military purposes. They- may use a cathe dral for a fortress, or the r an ammunition dump, then Anfirlo-American barbarians" rlies have been baited into attacking it. But there is also evidence that ancient churches of no military importance have been destroyedalong de-stroyedalong with the art . treasures, they contained, through some imprecision in plotting plot-ting the target or releasing the bombs. Such accidents cannot be avoided entirely. But the study just completed, and its forthcoming forth-coming application, should help to cut them to a minimuni , A young American soldier is not to t blamed if antiquities don't seem very import-' import-' ant in the heat of battle. But they are important im-portant to the people of the countries through which we must fight. . ' ' J . tnat saving lives ana winning uatues wm allow, it is expedient to protect these antiquities." cnii MiM vill ntv nt Sucir wrs will pay us dends in military aid and good will, and it wny it is here can enrich the world's civilization. 1 "i try to SUNDAY, The Washington A Daily Picture of What's Goihg Qa in National Affairs Ordinarily, self worth forty-five Ion the seriate proportion to Round report of Valley Authority: NO MOUNTAINEER MCKELLAR. by one Drew Lincoln." it. blustery mountaineer-Kenneth McKellar." "I distress : know Mr, Pearson, mountains. Yet aams a tViImIt about mountains. honor to be a napes would have, "He is just Har, a peewee "His further That is all it is, "I read jnore know It. I have only thing I can it is an absolute "A COLOSSAL "Listen to ments that have women who iney are me - "I say that senator yield?" nreoarations of and magnitude extra precaution arm. Clark has, "A REVOLVING born liar, a liar from announced (Laughter.) This it.?' ator yield?" for that sort of a whether the Abbey, for in- 4 i Mr. MCKenar: son exactly!" ernor William volving liar." thla twvnlvlnir liar from Tennessee ful appropriations ever, since this rums of Pompeii uia x ever mu scream about when the Al- himself, as shown To the extent 1 111 111 immMlitte Hivi. H1 iyui iriena immediate oiyi- doubtt to pubUah .1 4 . M - MAY 14, 1944 Merry-Go-Rou nd Bjr Drew Pearwt M. All mm mm Mf 4mtr) WASHINGTON "i- It hu been said that oratory or-atory Is on the wane in America, that great figures who dare to speak out on the senate floor have disappeared, dis-appeared, that the real power of the senate Is now exercised in committee by strong, silent men with no grace for speech. s . J Those who heard Tennessee's Senator Kenneth McKellar harangue his colleagues on the subject of this columnist the other. day are wondering if this is true. Opinion is divided. But both sides agree that the gentleman from Tennessee hit the high watermark wa-termark for gorgeous invective. ' this columnist doesn t consider him minutes of the senate's' Ume and twelve columns in the congressional record but since Senator McKellar is anxious to get circulation, circu-lation, this column is delighted to oblige. So we give you Senator McKellar of Tennessee speaking floor in rebuttal of a Merry-Qo- his feud against the Tennessee "Mr. President, I have been slfown an article Pearson, a so-called columnist. 1 wish to read from the article and comment upon "Pearson says: 'For 32 long years in congress lone enourh to say that I do not but really he Js an ignorant ass. this ignorant, blundering, lying , 1 tm AMAfhl. i.A.f.WU I The truth is that it is not a dis mounteineer. Only a blatanr jacka madea point of tna an Irnbrant liar, a pusillanimous liar. I understand Jie and Lilienthal (David Lllenthal, chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority) are great friends. .They are" two of a kind. What is fitter than two liars standing up for each other? sxatment is that I am famous for my patronage. That is simply a willful, deliberate, malicious newspaperman's lie. out of whole-cloth. of the article: 'When it comes to temper, the' senator from Tennessee surpasses any other man on Capitol Hill.' "No one could tell about that, because that is a matter of opinion, on -which probably no two persons .would agree. It may be that I have a temper. tem-per. !V "I read on : 'Most of his colleagues remain in awe of McKellar's lashing tongue; some even in fear.' "In my judgement, that Is willful, deliberate. malicious lie,, out of the whole doth. If any senator stands in awe of me for any reason, I do not never heard of such a thing. The say about that statement is that falsehood.'" LIE" ' this.. Of all the remarkable state heen made about me this article. this one is the most false, most damnable, most outrageous, the most colossal lie I have ever read about myself or anyone else : They remember the occasion when McKellar pulled a knife, and charged a colleague on the senate floor, until he was disarmed." dis-armed." . that statement is a willful, delib erate, malicious, dishonest, intensely cowardly, low degrading, filthy lie, out of the whole cloth. I never pulled a knife on any person inmy life. Not only have I never pulled a knife on any senator, but I have never pulled a knife oh anyone in my entire en-tire history." (During this part of. His speech, Senator McKellar Mc-Kellar glared hard at Senator Clark Of Missouri). Mr. Clark of Missouri: 'Mr. President, will the McKellar: "I yield, nothWithatandlng my temper, tem-per, I am delighted to yield. Mr. Clark: "Ican bear witness to the fact that the senator wasnever' intemperate with me." Note TheAssociated Press, April 5, 1938, re-, ported: "Whenf the senate quit for the day. Senator McKellar macle a lunge at Senator Copelarid, but Senator Clark of Missouri stepped in. Struggling in Mr. Clark's arms. Senator McKellar announced distinctly that Senator Copeland was a blankety-bl&nk, blankety-bl&nk, asinine old son of a so-and-so. Further, Senator Sen-ator McKellar went on; he Was a blankety-blank. lying what-you-may-call-it." 1 Kellar had a clasp knife which he was taking out since denied this. LIAR" - Mr. McKellar: "When a man is a natural- during his manhood and all the time, a congenital liar, a liar by profession,- a liar for a living, a liar in the daytime, and a liar in the nighttime, it is remarkable how he can lie. is a very fine bit of evidence of " Mr. Chandler: "Mr. President, will the sen Mr. McKellar: "I yield." Mr. Chandler: "I believe there is a defininition liar. He fa called a revolving liar.'.' "A revolving liar! It suits Pear (Laughter.) Note Chandler doubtless had in mind ex-Gov Fields of Kentucky, who. once called Franklin Reynolds "an automatic hydraulic re Air. Mctteuar: "usten to this infamous liar., ft jiitaHtl "Ti Mntl.m.nN is acting chairman of the power committee, where he can kill the pet projects of senators who oppose him." "A LYING BRUTE" "Well. I never heard of such a thing! How lying brute has brought up the suDjeci, x xnan 10 asic my rnenas if any of them have ever heard of my attempting to kill their" projects? pro-jects? I do not ask any of them to speak up unless un-less they want to. I shall be glad to have them do so if any of them have anything to say about it. a pet project of any senators, be he Democrat Republican or Independent? I never did such a thing in my life. My. whole life here brands that as a lie. It is just a plan Drew Pearson Pear-son lie. "Evidently he has formed a coalition with this other great liar, Lilienthal. As my colleagues, know,! birds of a feather will flock together. Lilienthal by the record, has falsified doz-i ens of times while testifying before our committee. Apparently he has got another liar to come along and help defend him in his lies. "I read on: The power of senate confirmation is tremendous and gives a senator from the state affected the virtual veto of any appointee to whom he may have personal objections.' "It is ridiculous, it is silly, it is asinine. It is worse. It is just a crooked statement of a crook who is trying to help another crook.. "Again I read: "Other senators don't especially inquire what those objections are, but gang together to-gether to preserve their longcherished system of keeping a throttle-hold on patronage." A LOW-LIFE SKUNK" "I am now speaking for all my colleagues, as well as myself. This man is just an egregious liar, and this is an egregious lie, out of the whole cloth. There is nothing but lying from beginning to end. J-auentnai nas gotten mm, no this lie about me, and that is tn this paper, be honest" with my constituents. 1 The Dosos Arc Ge TMZMM Copylhfc . 1M1. NBA-Servtc. Ino. tirw-rf wnnit at The CROSS . " ROADS XX rpiLDA COITRTRIGHT entered T the ton. But lorma was there, and she couldn't; talk to Norma now. She hurrleid on, into the garden She couldn't stand the sight of the garden, she reaped. She Went on lto the woods, among tn trees. She wa, without with-out realizing it, almost running. One of the Japanese soldiers stopped her. "Tomater he said suspiciously! and demanded where she was going and why. Spe called him an idiot, speaking" speak-ing" Japanese It had no effect on the soldier.Then he told her that Captain Azaraski wished to speak to her. "Very well. But go get him, she said sharply. "I will not wait lone on him." Tilda Courtright thought about liierself while she waited. None of the thoughts .were very pleasant She had told Link that she was tht wreck of an ; idealist That wasn't a Joke. She was also an old woman confused by the world. An old woman, she suspected who was defeated.' I She had also told. Link she was an old maid schoolmarm from Iowa. This,' was ian understatement. understate-ment. She was, or at least she had once thought, important to humanity. To the Japanese. She had given her life to educating them. Missionaries had the same feeling about their savages, probably. prob-ably. . . .:, . For years she had been an Important Im-portant foreign advisory expert to the Japanese Educational Department Depart-ment Except for that, she knew, she would have been thrown in internment prison with the rest of the foreigners. ' She was still an American to the tips of her toes. The very day of Pearl Harbor, she'd given up all Powerful Secret Weapon Revealed In Great Britain LONDON, May 13 (EE) British forces trained to razor ddge sharpness sharp-ness for the invasion of Europe were, revealed today to be armed with a ectiet weapon which demolishes de-molishes a military position within a matter of seconds. Prinze Minister Winston Church--ill and visiting premiers of the commonwealth witnessed a demonstration dem-onstration of the weapon somewhere some-where in England, A sample Ger-man" Ger-man" position crumbled to rub-;ble, rub-;ble, infantry charged with bayonets bay-onets to "consolidate the destroyed post," and Churchill exclaimed ex-iCidedly ex-iCidedly to Premier Jan C, Smuts of South Africa: "Look Jan!" The nature of the new weapon first will be made known to the Nazis in a . manner calculated to do them, the most harm, but It is not too much to say that ft may play a hig' part in neutralizing tne west wall of Adolf Hitler's European fortress. r Churchill, Smuts and Prime Minister Min-ister W. L. McKenzie King of Canada covered 100 miles . in a tour of inspection among Britain's invasion, forces. try to be straightforward. I do not undertake to lie to them. I tell them the truth, and I serve them. And that is true, notwith standing this man Pearson and hisClient Lilienthal "Gentlemen, I am not angry. I am just sorry that this great nation na-tion of ours, this nation of honest hon-est men. this nation of Americans, has within its borders any person so low and despicable so corrupt, so groveling, so desirous of injuring injur-ing the character' and the accomplishments accom-plishments of his fellow men, as this low-horn, low-lived, corrupt, and dishonest Drew Pearson. "Mr. president, do Senators all know what1 a skunk is? He. is sometimes known as. a polecat. The animal called a skunk cannot change his smell. 'This human skunk cannot change his smelL He will always be just a low-life skunk. i - "Mr. president; if I have been guilty of exhibition of temper, I hone the senators will forgive me." rCoovrisrht1944. by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.) f tinq Harder to Swallow TWEEDY hope , for Japan. As far as she was concerned, anyway. She'd washed her hands, mentally, of the little tea-colored monkeys. . She'd kept her mouth shut though, and remained out of internment in-ternment prison. Then, when- Captain Azaraski came to her with the Greer case, she had no choice. She could not refuse.- f ' ' t TF she refused to help, it meant that Lincoln Belt 'would be tortured tor-tured horribly and possibly killed. Then Norma would surely receive the same" treatment She had hoped to save them. So she had. accepted Azar as lei's proposition. She had , even entered into Aza-raski's Aza-raski's counterplot, whereby the three of them, Azaraski,' Baldwin and herself, would share the gains. She didn't expect to get a. thing in the end. She wouldn't have accepted it f Anyway Azaraski would see that she got nothing. Azaraski was as crooked as a Scotchman's walking-stick. - 1 Her only hope was -to get out of Japan, in the end. So; she had hired Monk, one Japanese ahe could trust, and his fishing boat Monk would take( her to Russia. She saw no way of getting Link and Norma to Monk's boat, So they cduld escape Japan too. So she hadn't planned on that The best she could hope for was to get them safely returned to prison, with the Japanese satisfied there was nothing to gain by troubling with them any more. Now she was afraid. Afraid she wouldn't be able to save Link and Norma. Azaraski joined her, well pleased with himself He led her out of earshot of the soldier. VI wanted to ask you," he said, if Link hai found out that Nor-ma's Nor-ma's brother was his pilot" "No," said CourtrigbV. forcing Forum'n Agin'em UNABLE TO GET WATER . FOR VICTORY GARDENS ' Editor: Are you like the rest of us, being be-ing patriotic and trying to grow a. victory garden? If so. I guess you knbw our troubles. Weyhear, "xjon t use city water on your victory garden." Yes. our water tax for Irrigation has alio been paid but it's the .middle of May and we can't get drop of water. The time we spent putting , in seeds might Just as well have been spent seeing a show or something. some-thing. When you call and ask, it doesn't help. If there's a reason why, don't they put in the paper and let us know,? Respectfully, C. H". JONES 439 N J E. d A's an Q What is an astradome? AWThe overhead opening in a bomber to permit the navigator to see the sky. - What are the "seven wonders" won-ders" of the modern world ? A Carlsbad caverns, N. M.; Crater lake. Ore.; Grand canyon, Ariz.; Rainbow natural bridge, Utah; Redwood trees, Calif.; Victoria Vic-toria falls. Rhodesia; Yellowstone national park, Wyo. ! . Q Which are mofe nervous under un-der bombing: goat, and reindeer or tigers and elephahta? A The Moscow zoo, director says that tigers and elephants take It with the most composure. Q What is a floater, in. a political po-litical sense? A A voter not avowing alle giance to arty particular party. Q Where and when was the Y. M. C. A. formed? . A In London in 1844 by George WUliamS. for promoting intellectual; social, and physical welfare' among Protestant young men. Qs I M'tyXK-rX Block " 1 calmness into her voice, and lying. "fie hasn't" Fjor a moment AzarasklS face was ugly with disappointment "If they weren't stupid .. Americans," he said, "they would have found it out" She didn't trust herself to answer an-swer that ' Azaraski said, "It's up to you to bring up the subject." , "I do not know whether I am that clever." "Do it Do it quickly." Azaraski scowled. "I am getting impatient" She stare 1 at him and a horrible thought enf red her mind.j Did he plah to kill Link and Norma after this was over? It was quite possible pos-sible he did. ' T ATER, with the widest of smiles on his flat facei Captain Azaraski Aza-raski approached 'Link. "Excuse me, please, have you been hunting me?" he asked. "I have been going to chapel for a few minutes.f Link was in a mood where he wanted to make nasty remarks, but he felt he couldn't very well slam a man's religion. He forced himself to behave casually. "I jwas wondering," Link said, "how" long we Were going to stay here. I haven't started sightseeing the inn yet." Azaraski rubbed his hands together. to-gether. "Pal, I wantedito keep that surprise until later," he said. 'Well, "well, another surprise." Link said dubiously. "That's fine pal. What is it this time, a centipede?" centi-pede?" Link could guess what it was. He bad a kind of premonition that Azaraski's surprise would be: They could stay at the inn a while. Sure enough: ''You can spend maybe two or three days here at toe inn," said Azaraski. "Isn't that wonderful?" "Sure."' said Link. "Wonderful, wonderful." . "Believe me, I had some trouble arranging it," said Azaraski. " f You're undoubtedly a liar and you do a good job of it. Link reflected. re-flected. At any rate, I feel the dirty work at the crossroads is just commencing. com-mencing. (To Be Continued) PROMISED BUS SERVICE FAILS TO MATERIALIZE Editor Herald: Here 'comes the bus! No, false alarm! Sometime ago we read in the Herald jthat a new bus system sys-tem was to De installed in Provo. We all applauded, thinking that now we would have the privilege to ride in decent buses. But alas, it did not materialize. We are still riding the old rattle traps and worn , out buses. Time arid time again people . have been standing waiting for the bus to come, only to find out that it has broke down, "and will no appear for several hours, or perhaps not until tne next day. Mothers stand ing mere wnn cnuqren on a vo;a. be .disappointed is not very pleaa-J aiy.. we nave no complaint iv en ter against the drivers, they are doing their best. They" too, . get rather discouraged. Now we have a very fine ity. Provo has fine streets, beautiful residences, well kept homes, and the inhabitants are a law abiding fine people. Provo is a fine home town. We invite people to corn aind make their homes here. And we are proud in doing so. But if when the strangers come in here and take a ride in the city bus of coutse the bus system does not belong to the clty-i what is' the impression that he gets? He will naturally wonder why the city allows al-lows inadequate transportation system in - a city the .size - and beauty of Provo. When -the public pays "for service, they ar entitled to the best. Now to be plain about this matter. Either we should have a new bus system, or fhe ld one be discarded and , thrown -. into. Uncle Sam's scrap pile so that people will not be disappointed. . V; C. V. HANSEN LARGEST ELECTRIC SIGN Buenos Aires, Argentina, is said Ho ' have the largest electric sign in me woria. i is loa ieei, oy u feet, and contains J5,00tt light bulbs. The -sijgni waa made in the United Stat una By Frank C. v Robertson . In spite of all the high' flown plana for recreation centers,' or- tgahlzed play, and sweet . fuperr vtston. - juvenile delinquency continue con-tinue to. grow. And in spite !f everything the vast majority ot kids are a credit to themselves, to their families, and to the community. com-munity. With all the well meaning efforts to coddle and supervise them the wonder is that were are not more delinquents. x The i most I elemental knowledge Lof human nature, especially child nature, snows inai cnuorro rrocuv too much restriction. Of ' course U it is forced on them they will accept it and become food little Nazis as they did in Germany but the average child lutes 10 feel a measure of independence. He wonders why some of our vaunted individual 4s m doesn't apply to him. I suppose iveryoneX has. lorn e sweet soul' who boast ed how he liked to. be 'one with' the. dear little kiddles. .r-V' stantly try- Xtig to ifi. his cum b e r -some presence upon them to their poHtely restrained disgust. dis-gust. It seems Robertson to me our iuvenile reformers are trying to impose the adult Polly annas upon our- youthful popula tion by force of law. And when they do look for another boom in in delinquency.. ' ' What our reformers and busy bodies can't seem to realize is that children like anybody else like to oe let aioae, lor av considerable part of the. time at least. And de velopment doesn't come by constant con-stant association with "the gang." no1 matter, how 'well supervised. Unfortunately, It is the more aggressive ag-gressive and versatile children I most likely to resent constant su pervision, and from their nature they are likely to influence weak-ear weak-ear ones to "resistance Once they get the feel of rebellion hi their blood rowdyism and. crime are likely to result : .This is not .to say that Influ ence cannot be exerted in -many ways. ,6r that public playgrounds should not be supervised, but I dp contend that the more -you try to force children onto public play grounds and recreation centers the more rebellion you may have. Supervisors may herd the luven ilea around Until their tongues hang out, but once tbey go beyond be-yond where the kids themselves want them to go. and they will be gin to incite cussedness. I 'once lived next a school'-play ground for several years. The only supervisor I ever saw there was the janitor. He happened to be one in a million, a man whom kids naturally took to. I doubt if he had a single highfalutin' theory about child training, but I've never nev-er known anyone with a better in ftuence on children. He didn't try to teach them! he just made his influence felt. , 'Jhbse of us fortunate, or un- ioftunate enough to have, attended a little red scholhouse, where we hod just one teacher during the entire term, can look back to teachers who had a lasting influence influ-ence on our lives for good, or perhaps per-haps occasionally for evil, simply because we came to know each other so well, and the school became be-came a sort of oversized family. I had perhaps half a dozen dif ferent teachers in my brief at tendance at school, yet every one of them made his or her mark upon my character. Watching my own son pass through grade and high school, rutting from teacher to teacher every day, I realized that not one of them made any more mark: upon hiarnenrory than mere casual acquaintances. No doubt we've crained a lot in scien tine methods, although plenty orwjo as you please.' eaucators wiu coniena inai our educational system needs a com plete overhauling, but we also have lost a lot in the matter of personal contact. Of course there can be no gain saying that the chief influence is the home. I know of a farmer who bought wheat that His own son and another lad had stolen, from the second boy's father. '.You couldn't expect an v thine: exceDt delinquency to come from a home pike that- All. of us know parents wno seno : tneir children off to church with a smile and.a bles sing, and then take the same chil j , ... r " about their ability td break the sseed laws Without rcttlnc nutlvht tedTtnVn wonder- why their eh;U-dren eh;U-dren Co . wron. It's everw man's privilege tn America' to cUsS the government, but breaking ; the laws of the government is ouite another matter, no matter unnecessary or deplorable those laws "mf y seem to be. Muchj worse is the parent .who likes to drive sharp bargains, and brag about hoWvhe got the beat of a neighbor- in a deal. Hli bwn child will be quicKxto thinli that mere is Bomeuung aqmiraDie aoout cneaung, and .' sooner or later . the child who . will cheat will also steal. Ik " One of the things I hate about regimentation is the stress laid on age groups. My own childhood is a long ways back, and I Mas pretty much of a recluse, yet the ones who influenced me most were never nev-er children of my own. age, hut those older than mystelf. " They were our heros, old "enoiighl to know more than wedid, yet young enough to avoid the remoteiiesS of adults. Even if they only tolerated us they always Inspired us toi Indi vidua! afchievement. ; Broadly, I fear, that a regU mented -iuvenile' nooulation Will grow up to be a meek and docile adult population ready to accept the will joT the first fast tattdng; dictator who cornea along.wbJpe tne reDeiuous ones wiu Deiorcw inWary outland of delihquency, and then crime.: .: ; Dtesk GHaf .-: ' -. A ; , ri, -A LIGHT IN THE WINDOW '.' Dofen through American: history ;f a light, burning cheerily in the I J window, has typified the Welcome ( - that awaits; a young' man! or.: .a ' a young woman returning to hearth- V side and to Mother. , ' , . " i Woodsmen who pkneerd in. the?.. '. days when our nation was young-! " saw a candle glowing in the win- ded homeward at journey's end$ patriots saw the same gleam when inn! f-om. tr. llncHanl have looked forth to its cheeriness as. holidays approached. ; , Always the light has betokened. Mother's welcome ... i4 . . ' Today, when American bbs Serve: on foreisrn strands, 'when training campa and battleground grow deadly mpnotonoiid. thoughts of Mother and the home' she has nshrlned beckon to them as a light guiding their footsteps from the wilderness." No . one . thought has So affected the destiny Of. ffcfn's lives-'-even history itself aft that for the gentle liindly woman wo-man known by. men. . great and small as Mother. ' Today mothers the world over like those in-' our own'community rbear heart-heavy burdens. They fear for sons in the armed forces,, sons who 'are always in their thoughts. Few soldiers or sailors, . even in the battle zones, know the strain which is their mothers' everyday lot as a result of the world ablaze. . Let us with deepest gratitude pay tfibute today Mother's Day to the wdmen Who have made America noble. They are the mothers moth-ers of all of us. ; BIS MOTHER'S DAY , WISH I'd like to talk to Mother, Hold open please the line ' I only want to tell her that I -hop she's feeling fine And wish her every "happiness, oft' this her special day I'd like to talk to Mother, she's ; so very far away If I could talk to her again for just a little while I'd fancy I could see .her there, and Just the way slie'd smile To hear me call her f "precious boss," and that "1 love her apron Strings." 4 I want to talk to her today much more man anytning. So ,operator. if .you can,5 hold ooen please the line , I'd like to tell , my Mother, that her boy is feeling fine. ! MELBA S. PAYNE. Miss Vivien Kellems, who dis- , covered that people' don't like to pay taxes, now finds' that women L are sick of war. This, we think, la an understatement. Bo are men, ' especially soldiers. oOo TIRES ' What some people will do to get tires these days is illustrated by this ; ad in a New Mexico news- 1 paper: "Wanted: Owner of 1940 -Buick would like to CQrrespond . . 'with widow who has two good tires. Object matrimony. Address 'Old Bachelor" and please enclose picture of the tires.' ' V ' oOo MODERN MAID V . Mistress: Mary, vfe'n hava breakfast promptly at o'clock. ' N"ew Maid: AH rights Ma'am; if I ain't down, don't you-all wait. , J' Oo HE IS THE KIND, OF MAN 1 who' smokes cigarS because ha . knows his associates are not - bold enoughto 8ayNGimme., "The new wounded man in Sec- tlon C is 'very good lopking," -observed the Army--nurse to tha matron. "Yes,' agreed the matron, "but don't wash his face. "He's already had that done , 4y four nurses this morning.,ti? " And then there waa the woman who always followed her husband's advice when he eaidr 'Go ahead and A SOLDIER'S LAMENT; ' . Down tn the South Paclf id Where the skies are always bluer wnere me; oiras are chirping merrily, That's 'where I think of, you. I wender when I look up at tht Clouds. 1 That once in a while float above; If they could but deliver, ai note, : To you, My message of lovel My message is to a matnden fair , A. letter of love, fond and' true; 'f 'Whoirf.I protect from harm and i woe, ; .-. -i By flghtlhg for her in , the blue. I love you, darling, Oh, yes, j do! : . :. I hope you love me too; .- . 'V sut ir you haver the slightest ' doubt, '; 'A !.; lust wait till I come home to you. , f - ai. Cochrane I- Partisans Destroy Nazi Strongholds LONDON. Mav" 13 OLE) Allied air forces, supporting Marshal Josip Tito) Broz' land offensive in Montenegro, were ! reported by Yugoslav Partisan' headquarters today to have destroyed all German Ger-man strongholds in the vicinity of Podgorica, on the Albanian frontier fron-tier 18 miles northeast of Cetinge. A 'heavy .toll, of the German forces Was taken as the Allied bombers swept across the Adriatic , from Italian bases to unload,, high explosives among) the, enemy "positions, "posi-tions, a communique said. . In a summary of the fighting in Montenegrosand adjoining Sand- jck, headquarters said the Partisans Parti-sans had killed Zt45 enemy troops, during 1 the vperipd from i April' 8 to May 5, and ini addition tb freej fate new iterritflirvt also cleaned sec tors captured by the Germans meir miuai urive. t ,,. 7 -f 4i if 'v ' j'.', it X.- 7 i. .' i 7 |