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Show PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 1944 . Editorial .... Cracking Bottlenecks The prodigious achievement of American industry, combined with the spectacular success suc-cess of the Navy in thwarting Axis submarines, sub-marines, has put an initial crack into some of the most burdensome civilian bottlenecks. Specifically, we now have caught up -or are on the very verge of catching up with shortages in aluminum, copper, steel, cast iron, wool, and rubber for most purposes except ex-cept heavy duty tires. The improvement is not necessarily permanent. per-manent. Another of the continual shifts in front line requirements, a revival of ship losses, a moderately protracted strike or "holiday" in any of these industries, and the tiny surpluses in excess of critical war needs would vanish. Barring one of those eventualities, it will be possible for the WPB to allocate increased in-creased quantities of material to civilian needs. Indeed, in certain fields such allocations alloca-tions could have been made already if .manpower .man-power and machines were available to utilize the raw materials without interfering with war production. In general, here are some of the blessings we can expect or for which we can hope in the near future: There is enough wool so that all restrictions restric-tions are off its use for clothing, even tfc cuffs and patch pockets on men's suits. Some 1,600,000 yards of Army reject nylon has been released for use in garments, but not for hosiery. There is no ban on use of synthetic rubber rub-ber for garments, and it appears that the passenger car tire situation will loosen up a bit, at least enough to help war and business busi-ness users. Cast iron is becoming available for kitchen kitch-en ware, flatirons, etc., and steel can be used for coat hangers, screens, carpet sweepers, ;hand tools and similar items. There is copper for insect screens, repair parts for household labor saving devices, electrical equipment and plumbing fixtures. This doesn't mean that you will get all of those things at once. On many of them there were two locks raw material and manufacturing facilities. The first has been loosened. The second hasn't necessarily. The WPB authorizes fabrication of 80 per cent as much farm machinery as in 1940, for example, but that industry may be able to turn out only 70 per cent after meeting its obligations to the fighting men, though the raw materials are available. There still are clouds in the sky. But thoy are lighter. The sun is going to come up. The Washington Merry-Co-Round You Take What You Get These Days rM SORRVTBUO- WT?E FPESH OUTA ALt- The Things &U WAKITED A Daily Picture of What's Going on in National Affairs By Drew Pearaoa (tol. Robert 8. .Allan o etlT duty). We Still Need Ships The reason behind the shift away from merchant shipbuilding has been told officially, offic-ially, but it has not been stressed enough. Any idea that the shipping bottleneck has been eliminated, that we have all the cargo craft we need, is wrong and very dangerous. We can not afford to relax for a single moment. Emphasis has been changed not because we have sufficient ships, but because we do not have enough landing craft, and for the moment the latter are even more important than freighters. According to sources entitled to credence, the Navy may ask the War Shipping Board for as many as from four to five hundred additional ships this year, for operations in the Pacific. These must be taken out of the pool available for bringing in raw materials for the war program and for servicing civilian civil-ian needs. Right at this very moment, we may have enough vessels for current needs, by retaining retain-ing rigid restrictions on foreign trade. But President Chiang of China was not in Cairo as a sightseer. He was there to talk about an all-out attack against Japan. This means that the time has come when the machinery must be set up to begin such an offensive. And that, in turn, forewarns of a draft on shipping sueh as this world never has seen. Ships can be built only with steel. We can not tolerate a steel strike. Steelmaking and shipbuilding make big demands on transportation. transpor-tation. We can not tolerate a railroad strike. It is important who Is at fault in the disputes dis-putes that have grown up in the steel and railroad fields. But that is infinitely less important than that the trains shall roll and the steel come out of the furnaces so that ships can be built the landing barges which will take our soldiers and marines to Jap-guarded' beaches in the Pacific, and also the transports and cargo ships that will carry and service our fighting men. By Directive Congress has been given, by the Constitution, Consti-tution, sole power to make all laws necessary and proper for the raising of an army. See Article I, Section 1 ; Section 8, paragraphs .'18 and 12, preferably in that order. Congress has decreed, by law, that pre-Pearl pre-Pearl Harbor fathers shall be placed at the bottom of the list of selective service eligi-bles. eligi-bles. This, says President Roosevelt, who signed that law, is nothing but a "pious wish," without binding force. Congress also decreed, wisely or foolishly but legally, that Paul McNutt should be divorced from the administration of the draft. President Roosevelt, whose signature signa-ture approved this decree also, says he is going to take advantage of another law to continue McNutt' s participation in the selective selec-tive service setup. . Ain't we got fun? WASHINGTON Not since the days when Justice Hugo' Black then a senator, exposed the wolf packs of Washington, have capitol corridors and cocktail lounges been so packed with the brazen, bra-zen, charming gentlemen ouv to lobby for their special interests. Lobbyists have even got to the point where they threaten to run candidates against a Senator who doesn't vote the way they direct. Most brazen instance is the recent backstage by-play to force Senator Claude Pepper of Florida to vote for the insurance bill or else face a tight for re-election. The insurance lobby's play is to run Ambassador Joe (Mission to Moscow) Davies against him. What happened was that Payne Midyette an expresident of the National Association- of Insur-' ance Agents, cauea i'epper irom lauanassee ana asked how he was going to vote on the bill exempting exempt-ing insurance companies from the Sherman Antitrust Anti-trust act. Pepper aaid he was against insurance companies and against the bill. Midyette then became threatening. He is an old friend of Pepper's and is especially close to Pepper's law , partner, now a circuit court judge. But he indicated, in non too-veiled language, that the insurance lobby was ready to raise $10,000 each from several different groups and put a strong candidate in the field against Pepper. Since then, it has developed that the proposed pro-posed candidate is Joe Davies, who would also have the support of the Florida Du Pont interests. Meanwhile, Pepper is standing pat on his vote. Florida insurance men thought for a time they had him converted and expectantly awaited his appearance ap-pearance before the Senate judiciary committee This was a closed-door session, with nothing supposed sup-posed to leak out. Next morning, however, Florida insurance men phoned. Pepper wanting to know why he hadn't supported their position. They had a virtual transcript of his testimony against them. All of which illustrates who is dominating, at times actually running, capitol hill today. Note: Joe Davies is reported not anxious to run against Pepper, and he probably won't. EXIT BCTIBSIGHT There is every indication that' the U. S. bombing bomb-ing to which the Japs will be subjected in 1944 wUl be without benefit of bombsight. The Norden bombsight has been publicized as the great secret appliance which will help us win the war. It has been highly successful in the European Euro-pean theatre, but in the Pacific it has actually become be-come excess baggage. Supply officers in Washington are still assigning assign-ing bombsight to planes for Pacific action, but (fliers are urging that the device be left at home. ! They have found that the most successful air attack at-tack in the Pacific is the low-level tree-top bornb-ilng, bornb-ilng, in which medium bombers sweep in on the target and let the bombs drop when they are so close they can't miss. This is better than any precision pre-cision instrument ever invented. Also, it is less dangerous than high-altitude bombing. Coming in low, the planes avoid detection by the enemy, whereas the high-altitude planes are caught both by instruments and vision. The tree-top flying requires greater pilot skill, also the use of delayed-action bombs so that the planes can get away from the target before it blows up under the plane. M This is the kind of work that was done In the famous battle of the Bismarck Sea, in which every Jap ship was destroyed. It was also how the Nazis sneaked up on Bori and wreaked havoc with Allied shipping. MORRISON'S MAIL Probably never before in historv has a member of congress so flagrantly used the free congressional congres-sional frank as Representative Jimmy Morrison in his curent campaign for governor of Louisiana. Thcj !marathpn-lunged, "midcet "Huey Long" believes in !sparirrg"ho expense in hvs campaign as long as the ! federal taxpayers are footing the bill. At the last count, aproximately a million pieces iof campaign literature folded, addressed and mail-led mail-led entirely at the taxpayers' expense had been sent out by Morison, urging Louisianans to vote ;for him in the January primary. The mailing charge ; alone would amount to about $30,000 if Morison had jto pay it out of his own pocket. However. Morrison hasn't contented himself iwith this gratuity. He has also introduced some brand new wrinkles that should open the eyes of shis older, though less ingenious colleagues. A great believer in the "personal touch," Jim-iiny Jim-iiny has four girl employees of the house majority room addressing ty nana the envelopes for his campaign ballyhoo. It would be quicker and far less expensive to use an addressograph, but Morrison wants the Louisiana voters to believe that they are getting something special. He can well afford to do this it's nothing out of his pocket. For a while, one girl was given the job of imitating Morison's signature on campaign letters sent to Louisiana voters, so that the voters would think he was writing to each of them individually. MERRY-GO-ROUND The budget bureau several times has offered Cordell Hull all the money he needs for the state department if he will clean house and get in some good men . . . Diplomats whisper that, if Sumner Welles had -been in the state department, we wouldn't have been caught napping in Bolivia . . . Certain A. F. L. labor leaders are leaning more and more toward Willkie since the General Marshall blast . . . When the president called off his press conference following the turmoil over General Marshall's Mar-shall's labor attack, Indiana scribe Dan Kidney remarked: re-marked: "Roosevelt's cold has gone to his feet." . . , A relative of the Busch brewery family, Gert Von Gontard, was arrested by the FBI as a draft evader and Nazi sympathizer. It sets off the contrast between be-tween him and grand old man Adolphus Busch, head of the family, a bitter anti-Nazi and a heavy contributor con-tributor to the anti-isolationist campaign . . . Vice President Wallace's significant Western speaking Itinerary will be Los Angeles, Feb. 4; San Francisco Feb. 7; a visit but no speech in Portland, Feb. 8: Seattle, Feb. 9; Milwaukee, Feb. 11; Springfield, 111., Feb, 12 . . . Harold Ickes and Henry Wallace, who didn't love each other too much when Wallace was Secretary of Agriculture, have made up. Jesse Jones (not love for him) brought them together . . . The A. F. L. executive committee will finally vote John L. Lewis's mine workers into the A. F. L. at this month's meeting in Florida. (Copyright, 1944, by United Feature Syndicate,, Inc.) ' J J Wgj Mm OtvSBelng & REAL PERSON BY DR. HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK Misfortune Doesn't Bring the Right to Be Despondent When depression comes, tackle in it, but to say that depressed yourself anddo not merely blame 'persons can make depression out circumstance Circumstances arej0f any circumstances Ahatsoever often so tragic and crushing as toj de into probiem. This truth la especially pertinent make dejection inevitable. To be sad is bereavement, disheartened by disappointment, dismayed by the world's greed and cruelty, dis consolatc betrayed, and even sullen, under abuse, is natural. Nevertheless, to deduce from the presence of misfortune mis-fortune the right to be a despondent despond-ent person, is a fatal error. In any depressing situation the decisive eleifient is not so much the situation itself or the natural emotional reaction to it as the klnoM of person who stands up to meet the experience and do something with it. Whatever circumstances surround a misanthrope, he will see and emphasize their seamy side. As Horace put it long ago, "Unless the vessel is clean, what ever you pour into it turns sour." Life is an assimilative process in which we transmute into our own quality whatever comes into us. It's a very odd thing As odd as can be, That whatever Miss T. eats Turns into Miss T. To say that depressing circumstances circum-stances make depressed persons in a tragic era when the world is upset by catastrophic events. Not when personal trust is:to be depressed by such public cal amities as afflict mankind would reveal an insensitive spirit. Nevertheless, Never-theless, the more depressing the time, the more people are needed who maintain their morale in spite of it and attack life with constructive con-structive courage. Such people face all the facts that the discouaged face and feel them just as poignantly, poig-nantly, but in confronting the world they do not forget to confront con-front themselves. ; They are not merely mirors to reflect a tragic situation but per sons who have their say concerning concern-ing the meaning of that situation to themselves and others. The catastrophic cat-astrophic eras In history have produced pro-duced two types of personality the cowed, disillusioned, and emotionally emo-tionally disintegrated, and the courageous, coherent, and creative. Some people are merely thermometers, thermo-meters, registering the temperature; tempera-ture; others are thermostates, not only registering the temperature has an Important measure of truth but setting in motion processes by which it is controlled and changed. Many today, emotionally shaken blame their disorganization on the sad estate of the t world whereas their real problem is within themselves. them-selves. As D. H. Lawrence wrote concerning one of his characters, "Poor Richard Lovatt wearied himself to death struggling with the problem of himself, and calling it Australia. Whatever the situation, and however naturally disheartening it may be, it is a great hour 'hen a man ceases adopting it as an ex cuse for despondency and tackles himself as the real problem. No mood need be his master. He is bound to have occasions when he understands the meaning of the old proverb, "Every mile is two in winter," but at this point the analogy between moods and weather breaks down. Weather is beyond our control; moods, however recalcitrant and rebellious, need not escape the Jur isdiction of the central self. TOMORROW: Remembering others. $100 Fine Levied For Drunk Driving Willis H. Johnson of Spanish Fork was sentenced Thursday in the city court to pay a fine of $100 or serve 50 days in the county jail, when he, entered a plea of guilty to a charge of drunken driving brought by Pro-vo Pro-vo police officers. He was also fined $5 for failure to have his operator's license In his possession. Qitan Planish h Sinclair fivis OTrtafc. MMB. StecUtr Dttrtbttte ky ICKA Scrrte, In. The profit system is the best means to stimulate stimu-late the individual to his greatest effort. But to take that system for granted and not labor for its constant improvement is to invite another bust such as we experienced at the end of the twinkling twenties. Eric A. Johnston, president of U. S. C. of C. Polish statesmen seem to have in mind the historically his-torically retrospective picture of the defunct Polish Empire, embracing the Baltic countries, the Ukraine Uk-raine and even the great Duchy of Moscow. It is this complex that is responsible for the death of modern Poland. Dr. Tewik Rustu Aras, former Turkish foreign minister. The so-called island hopping is due in large measure to the limitation of ways and means. If we had more out there we could strike at more points with more force. Adml. Ernest J. King, commander-in-chief U. S. leet. 1 the srnnvi a. nnn t kib- lalkinlek relieve tn llKMt. (.Idron Flanlaa U 'Wfll-MIMiiifd, in demand de-mand aa a public apeakrr. and referred to a a "leader of kg. raanltarlaniani.' IMa wife. Ptoiy, la mrrlfve. ex Ira vn stun t and ambition. Ta route a her manea-rerln. manea-rerln. ta Dean beroraea chairman chair-man of be County enaorahrp Board. He aurreaafnlly attacks "The Tattooed Coanteas." which he baa never read, and Inadvertently Inadvert-ently increa,"ra the bualaeaa of the hwofc.acUer, Mr. Rood. ' XII 'JUK Garfield County Censorship Board had gone on attacking and advertising good books, and Mr. Rood had, with amazement at himself, taken to reading, and had established the first adequate book shop in the county. The name of Chairman Planish had been advertised ad-vertised almost as loudly as the books. Through the whole State there began to slide a feeling that he was a very sound man, though nobody except Peony was sure what he vas sound at, and he was appointed a member of the Legislative Advisory Electrification Electrifica-tion and Creative Planning Committee. Com-mittee. . . Suddenly he was dashing to Ottumwa, to Mason City, to Sioux City, to Muscatine, over a period of two months; his name was in the newspapers' daily on page 7; he took Peony to public dinners of more than 300 persons, with 16 speeches; and at the end of the meritorious crukade, the Planishes were $400 in debt, and Whipple Jackson sent a check to cover half the amount,; and with it Peony bought a rock-crystal lamp and 500 shares in a diamond mine. ' a T)EAN PLANISH had been hon-orcd hon-orcd by his -first invitation to become a "national director" of a great organization with its office in New York: The Sympathizers with the Paclfistic Purposes of the New Democratic; Turkey. He was assured that they desired only the use of his distinguished name, and he need give hoi-time nor money unless he was eager to. He wasn't. j Afterward he was often to have the experience, as warming to the stomach as hot .toddy, of seeing his name on organizational stationery. sta-tionery. But th$s was his first drink. In the upper right-hand corner of the letter were the National Officers, who included three prominent clergy men, a Chicago corporation lawyer, and a treasurer treas-urer who was the 14th vice president presi-dent of the Sixteenth National Bank of Manhattan. Beneath the list of officers was the item, "Constantine Kelly, Executive Ex-ecutive Director' in letters so modest that the Planishes, ama teurs in the organizational world, did not notice it They were interested in-terested in the left-hand side of the stationery where among the 48 directors, appeared: Iowa Gideon Planish Ph.D. Dean, Kinnikinick Cge. The news of this honor appeared ap-peared in the Iowa newspapers, and the Dean received invitations to become a director of two other national organizations, and to contribute con-tribute to 63 of them. He -accepted the first two. His many honors had now started the Dean on a meaty career ca-reer of oratory and public enlightenment. en-lightenment. The invitations to speak were coming in, two a day, three a day, and Peony took charge. "Gideon, honey.you've been doing do-ing all this spieling free, and it's a chance to cash in. We'll pay up that ole $500 debt in jig time, and I can get me a real evening dress that tinkles. You let me answer these bids. I'm going to stick em 25 and 50 bucks apiece, and up to 75, with traveling Expenses." "Sure. Go ahead and soak 'em. I just never had the nerve.'' "Listen. I might pick out a regular reg-ular topic for you and advertise it a little mention it in all my letters." let-ters." "Ausgezeichnet! Peony! Which do you think would draw morea lecture maintaining that the Post war Generation are okay, and will get over it, or just the opposite a message that they're a gang of cockeyed hellions and harlots?" "Oh, give 'em the young-gener ation-going-to-hell number. Nobody No-body wants to pay their good dough to hear that the kids are simply human beings." ' DEAN PLANISH was speaking ner of the Daughters of Pilgrims, and the Upsala Bach Society, at New Ipswich, 60 miles from Kinnikinick. He was not one of your nervous lecturers who poke at their apple-pineapple-peach - creamcheese salad, who shakily fill up on coffee, and look glassily at the ladies la-dies to left and right. Dean Planish Plan-ish ate stolidly, and he thought very well of the Surprise Ice Cream, while to Mrs. Wiggleman, the chairwoman, on his right, he was saying, Yes, he did think the movies were a pernicious influence influ-ence on the young. After that he said to the lady on his left that Yes, he did think the movies stimulated the imaginations and slicked up the manners of the young. He was not jumpy even when Mrs. Wiggleman introduced him. He rose, put on his eyeglasses eye-glasses with a flourish, and sailed his plane steadily into the trade-winds trade-winds of intellectuality: "Madame Chairman, Right Rev erend Sir, ladies and friends, it is altogether fitting and proper and a happy portent for the future that the descendants of the Yankees, my own stern but noble forbears, and the sons and daughters daugh-ters of the great Swedish race should thus have met together, and that I should endeavor to address ad-dress you on the ever-burning topic of Today's Youth, for in what have these titan races better united than in their emphasis on the scrupulous rearing of our children?" Sixty-two minutes later, he made his landing, a little dazed now, and they yelled and hammered ham-mered the tables. He enjoyed thai, but it did not keep him from getting down to the real climax. The first rule of all professional lecturers, whether inspirational, comic or travel, is to get your check before you leave the hall, for otherwise, in the spell of your wizardry, they might forget to send it on to you. So after he had shaken hands with 47 ladies and five men, he turned merrily to Mrs. Wiggleman and said, as though it were just a little joke between them. "I think I can save your committee a whole postage stamp if I take my check along with me!" Mrs. Wiggleman looked shocked, but before he went down to shrug himself into his dogskin ovarcoat, he had the check tucked into his billfold. He was weary now. He drove back to Kinnikinick in so still a paralysis that he noted only that it had started to snow, and that he must see if he couldn't find a not too expensive snakeskin belt for Peony. She was asleep on the new chintz-covered chaise longue when he came in, but she jumped up and kissed hiin. "Were you wonderful? I got some hot beef-tea waiting for you. Did you get your check?" she said. (To Be Continued) Poll Taken on Car Troubles (First of two articles on the civilian, ci-vilian, auto outlook for 1944.) By PETER EDSON N'EA Staff Correspondent The shortage of spare parts and the difficulty of obtaining repairs on civilian passenger automobiles are getting seriouser and Seriouser, but civilian auto transportation Isn't at the breakdown point yet. This is the conclusion obtained from a nation-wide consumer re quirements survey just completed by the office of civilian require ments division of the war produc tion board. It is the first definite Information on this subject to be obtained, everything previous hav ing been based on guesswork or spotty local checks. This OCR sur very was a scientific sampling of 4937 families in 68 communities of 120 counties, conducted during the second week of November by the U. S. census bureau in the most advanced poll-taking technique, tech-nique, making it as accurate as any such survey can be. The information in-formation it contains will be used in figuring what do do about civil ian shortages in the coming year. The survey showed the parts and repair situation to be worst in the far west, easiest in the east. On the average cvilian's experi ence in trying to obtain services difficulty in obtaining auto repair work was the sixth most frequent ly reported, being exceeded only by difficulty in obtaining shoe repair, dry cleaning, laundry service, radio repair and watch and clock repair Trouble in obtaining tire recapping service was reported tenth on the list and difficulty in obtaining tube repair was thirteenth. Scientific Sampling Numerically, of the 4937 fam ilies checked by the poll-takers. 930 reported having tried to get service within the previous two months. Of these 351 reported no trouble, 517 reported trouble in obtaining service and 62 reported trouble in obtaining spare parts. So scientific a sampling is this survey that the poll-takers believe it will give an accurate national picture of the auto repair situation if each of these numbers is multiplied multi-plied by a factor of 7400, since one family out of approximately every 7400 families in the entire nation was, interviewed for this survey. Carrying out this calculation, the office of civilian requirements comes up with the finding that in the survey period, 6.8 million auto owners tried to get service, 2.5 million got it all right, and 4.3 million had trouble. Project those figures on the total number of passenger cars supposed to be still running and mayoe it win give an idea of how serious this is. At the beginning of the war there were 28 million cars on the road. Today, 24.5 million cars are supposed to be in service, 2.5 million having been scrapped and a million cars having been stored. Ana if 4.3 million of the car own ers are having difficulty in ret ting repairs, that's more than one cer out of every six. Degree of trouble is of course not indicated. It may be a forced wait to get a grease job, and therefore unimportant. But these delays can easily become be-come important later. Of the 24.5 millions cars on the road, 15 million mil-lion are now over seven years old. which is a good long life for any jaiiopy. Office of defense trans portation estimates there will be a million fewer cars on the road this time next year than there are today. Stockpile Down They could be replaced by forc ing me million cars out of storage.- The stockpile of new autos being held for rationing to essential es-sential users such as doctors and police, is now down to between 30,000 and 40,000. When they're gone, the only hope for replacement replace-ment would be to force sales by the estimated 4.5 million non-essential drivers still operating cars. i ne minimum number of autos needed for essential transportation of war workers is estimated at 20 million. American Automobile Association Associa-tion reports it had 31 million road service calls in 1941 and 38 million calls in 1942. For .1943 it estimates the calls will number 40 million and will be up in 1944. Australia's frilled lizard holds up its foreparts and runs on its nma legs wnen tn haste. HOLD EVERYTHING pJlTZMORE! ecvtc com. 1M4 rr m nmu. Ti . aroJii. . err. or "Ask the ehiof if me a bit of caviar, my good mani" WSRll S UHEiST MUM AT W Desk Chat Answering Curious Cynic- Man is extremely inconsistent: he admires his wife's choice of her mate and considers she has exceptionally excep-tionally good judgement . . . but he has nothing except utter con tempt for her old sweeties. He is indeed a rare individual who is a hero to the old home town. And another reason that ex plains why some people are nar row-minded is qbsunacy. We sometimes wonder wnai sort of antics the next generation will think up to shock their parents. Hardware dealer: "Here Is a very nice pistol, lady. It shoots 9 times." Pistol-Picking-Mamma: "Say, what do you think I am a polyga- mist?" It is axiomatic that whenever you hear a business man or a salesman belittle or knocking a competitor, you can be assured that he is trying to bring the competitor's com-petitor's reputation down to his own level. 'No one ever knocks an inferior.' oOo Preparing A Finish- "That feller, MtfLfan Buttles, is terrible unpopular said a Tennes see mountaineer. "Well have to git rid ' him. somehow," replied the old moon shiner. "Yes, but we don't want to do nothin' in a way that ain't legiti mate and customary. You know he has p litical ambitions. Tve heard so. But he ain't got no pull." "Yes, he has. An' you an' your relations want to stand back o' me when I put the case up to our congressman. con-gressman. We'll git Buttles app'nt-ed app'nt-ed a revenue inspector an then let nature take Its course." There are two kinds of Americans: Ameri-cans: those who have a defense job, andi those who are beginning to dread the coming spring fever season. "There was a dance behind a igauze screen, reported a iaay theatrical censor In Chicago, "that revealed entirely too much of the performers." The censor was abruptly Interrupted Inter-rupted by the question, "Were they male or female ?" "Well, I believe," she replied after some hesitation, "that they were women as far as I could tell." Isn't it nice to know that the innocence in-nocence of censors is not at all apt to be corrupted by the things they see? America will import four billion bananas in 1944 . . and some 172,496 pedestrians will hava just cause for saying a naughty word. To My Pin-Up Girl Perhaps the picture That adorns My barrack wall Would shock My maiden aunts But how can they Think to know you , As I do? They who do not sea The splendid beauty Of your face and hair Nor know The softness Of your voice Or, with what grace You tread Your pious and Virginal way. They would not Mote the beauty Oi your face As I do, Nor see That your slender Body's charm Embodies honor, Spiritual and Holy things. They would not sea God's glory In your eyes. Nor could they Picture you Kneeling by Your bedside " In silent And reverent prayer. And, neither can I! Yesterday's Tomorrows Simile: As conceited as the woman who wears modest garments thinking they make her look demure. Far too many press agents d not understand the difference be tween notoriety and publicity. He Is the kind of an officer who has corns on his heels . . . where the desk rubbed." , Anyone can acquire the ability to make enemies but only a born politician has the knack of making mak-ing the right kind. ooo But, of Coarse! Of course, There must be Onions in heaven For they have A heavenly smell They smell like The breath of A long-lost friend Who has Good news to tell In the self-same Inimitable way That, like peeling Fresh onions. Has the power To make you cry. . . O. K., suppose you Finish this. . . . How d'you know You can't Until you try? Acts AT OKCE to relieve BUC TO DOST. SW0XC, F0MZS M fjjj -ir The flrit spoonful of Pertuamln MUST promptly relieve such, coughing or money back. Pertussin Is a. It contains con-tains no dope, chloroform at creosote. Prescribed by thousands of Doctors to relieve bad cougns caused by colds. |